Mountain Top Musings

We are in the season of STRESSING the Gospel message of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Yet, we must ever be SHARING that redempt...

 Too many churches are “self service” organizations.  They have members who demand that the ministries of the church, “serve us,” when the L...

John the Baptist would be in the wilderness of preparation when he received the Word for proclamation. It is interesting how many of God’s m...

  There is a puny, pitiful, punchless, powerless preaching that is pointless!  It is tragic and worthless. Concerning this, Paul spoke of Go...

   There were a relative handful of those who held the reins of power and abundance of possessions who followed Jesus. One thinks of Joseph ...

The parables of Jesus recorded in Mark 4 are about preaching and teaching the Word of God, and how that supernatural act brings spiritual li...

The flock of God is the focus of 1 Peter 5. In concluding his letter, Peter offers a word of exhortation, (v. 1, 12), to the church—God’s fl...

You can do the right thing for the wrong reason and it is still wrong. Case in point: the Pharisees of Biblical times did many right things—...

  Life here and hereafter is about choices.  I think of the scene in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” where the Knight who guarded the ...

Paul spoke in Romans 7 of the battlefield inside the believer—wanting to do right and doing wrong.  There is no text more illustrative than ...

 The only perfect Preacher—the Lord Jesus—preached with the anointing of the Spirit. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anoi...

As I read these sobering words I thought how many times God might have used me in a greater way had I only trusted Him more. Pastors may be ...

The Word of God has power to change your life!  As you enter this New Year, would you commit yourself to open your Bible daily, consume it, ...

There are many lessons to learn from the visit of the Magi. It is a wise man indeed who falls at Jesus’ feet to worship Him. There are numer...

  There is much that might be said concerning the long war between God and Satan, that this brief devotional on Revelation 12 cannot exhaust...

  God desires and deserves every praise from every person in every place. This is the repeated refrain of Psalm 67. “Let all the peoples pra...

Both the commencement and conclusion of Psalm 32 provide the bookends for the content: the blessedness of forgiveness. David starts with an ...

  Do you want to rob yourself and your flock of God’s blessing?  Then ignore prophecy—and in particular do not preach from Revelation. Our L...

Psalm 14 declares the depravity of humanity. Every person is born tainted with sin (cf. Rom.3:23). The Psalmist says, “there is none who doe...

  As a follower of Christ, I should know what I believe and why I believe it. Consequently, it is to produce a living hope in me.  The Chris...