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If Our Concept of God Is Wrong (May 16)
If we view God wrongly, we’re going to have wrong beliefs about the reality of sin and the question of our fellowship with God. The gospel will mean little if our concept of God is such that we see no need for what Christ made possible at the cross.
A Ransom for All (May 15)
Jesus makes possible our reconciliation with God because he “gave himself as a ransom for all.” In other words, He paid the price for us to be released from our condemnation, dying in our place and thereby atoning for our sins (Romans 3:25,26).
Knowing God, Eternal Life (May 14)
In Christ, we begin to know God, and we have what might be considered a foretaste of eternal life — or a down payment on it (Ephesians 1:14) — but the fullness of that life is something that will be ours only in eternity (Titus 1:2; 1 Peter 1:3,4).
Sincerely Setting Our Hearts on God (May 16)
As the God of truth, God requires that our actions truthfully reflect our desire and that our desire be nothing less than conformity — body, soul, and spirit — to the realities of His truth. We must desire God as sincerely as children often do.
Active Love and the Knowledge of God (May 15)
Answers to our questions about God can’t always be found by philosophical inquiry. We have to weave our inquiries into our dealings with other human beings. It is in the giving and receiving of love that truth has its best chance to occur to us.
Moved by Gratitude to Seek and to Serve (May 14)
Christ’s love has a “compelling” effect on us, even before we receive the forgiveness of our sins. It is our recognition of His love and our joyous anticipation of gratitude to Him that move us to respond to the gospel in the first place.
Seeking for . . Recognition? (May 16)
Why do we do what we do for God? If no one ever noticed or thanked us, would we be content simply to know that God had been glorified? Too often, what we’re really seeking is some (special) person’s “recognition” that we’re a good individual.
Harvest of Joy (May 15)
God makes it possible that those who “sow in tears shall reap in joy.” We might wish the harvest were already here, but that time is not yet. For all we know, it may be very near, but for now, the harvest is still in the future. We live in hope!
Only Truth Shows the Way to God (May 14)
Our redemption won’t be accomplished if we’re not willing to know God as He truly is, and it’s primarily in the language of the Scriptures that He reveals Himself as He truly is. The only question is: what will we do with this information?
Will (May 16)
Training and conditioning our wills to help us is one of the most important parts of becoming mature, and Anatole France was certainly right when he wrote, “An education that does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Fantasy (May 15)
Of our many gifts, fantasy is one of the greatest. Rather than relegate fantasy to the nursery, we would do better to honor it as adults and school ourselves in the wisdom of its joy. Like education, fantasy is much too good to limit to the young.
Interdependence (May 14)
Interdependence is a cooperative relationship where individuals yield some of their independence to others in the relationship for the purpose of achieving a mutual goal or realizing a shared vision. It involves trust, commitments, and collaboration.
DFBS 321 – We should be willing to sacrifice time as well as money for the Lord’s work
By withholding our time-schedules from the Lord, are we not refusing to give up our lives for Him, one day at a time? Jesus was never involved in anything that He was not willing to lay aside in order to serve our needs. We need to think as He did.
DFBS 320 – Saving faith is faith in Jesus Christ
We must believe that Jesus is who He claimed to be: the Son of God and Savior of the world. If we are to be saved by Him, we must turn to God in real trust and believe in His Son, committing ourselves to the truth that He can save us from our sins.
DFBS 319 – God wants us to give a worthy effort to our daily work
One day, we will answer for how we have used all that God has given us. When that time comes, we will want to be able to look back on a lifetime of work that was trustworthy. We will not want to be workers “ashamed” of our work (2 Timothy 2:15).
May 2026
I have begun a blog on Substack where I will post bits and pieces of the preliminary thinking that will, I pray, someday mature into a book. It’s called “Ecclesiastes Workshop” (https://ecclesiastesworkshop.com). You can subscribe to receive the posts by email or view them on Substack.
March 2026
I recently took a few days to assess the work that remains to be done on “Walking in Christ.” I’ve got 139 pages left to write, which sounds like a lot but it’s not nearly as many as the 366 I started with. It’s an exciting time in this this book, and I hope you’ll pray for clarity of mind as I head into the last stage of the writing.
January 2026
With God’s great help, I was able to meet my 2025 writing goals for “Walking in Christ.” I’ll have to keep my head down and stay focused to finish the remaining pages and have the book in your hands by the end of this year, but I believe it is doable.