From One Generation to Another

Posted by on Mar 17, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 1 comment One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. (Psalm 145:4 KJV) While serving as the pastor of an inner-city congregation, I was genuinely shocked when a young neighborhood boy came into my office at the church, looked around the room at all of my books, then spotted a wooden crucifix hanging on my wall and asked, “Whose that guy climbing on them...
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Holding on to the Old

Posted by on Mar 15, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 1 comment And a messenger of YHWH came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? 3 Wherefore I also said,...
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Not Ashamed of Right

Posted by on Mar 12, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 0 comments Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. (Psalm 119:4-7 KJV) As a young man growing up in my parents’ house, I remember those moments when I was asked...
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Pureness of Heart

Posted by on Mar 10, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 1 comment He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. (Proverbs 22:11 KJV) The picture drawn by this single verse in the proverbs is a very intimate one.  The king is drawn to those who speak graciously from a pure heart.  If we understand the King to be the Sovereign Creator of the Universe, this verse takes on even greater meaning and significance. Here we...
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SELECTIVE HEARING

Posted by on Mar 8, 2010 in From the Heart of the Mountain | 1 comment And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. (Mark 8:31-32 KJV) After having fed a multitude of 5000, and then another 4000, liberating numerous people suffering oppression...
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