Pastor Brad’s Notebook
14 Sep Devotional Thought – The Liberty Of The Spirit’s Law
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:2
It is only an inward law that has the power to set me free from an outward law. Many times I am as much a descendant of Mt. Sinai as the Jew. I go through this world like a school boy walking through the classroom, remembering that there are lessons that must be learned and answered that will be recorded. I talk about my accountability and my responsibility and the judgment that is to come.
12 Sep Devotional Thought – Alone With Jesus
"Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst." John 8:9
What a picture of the day of judgment. A single, sinful soul has a face to face encounter with Jesus as her judge. The ones who had condemned slowly left one by one until she is left all alone with the Lord.
I believe that is a type of Jesus' judgment of all souls. I think that after death there will be a meeting, a moment of solitude where the spirit of man will stand face to face with Jesus. I believe that it will be a moment of simple reflection and solemn review in which the past will be as present. I will see myself as I really am in the light of the Son of Man.
09 Sep Fridays Are For Family – Grandparents Are Great!
Last weekend our family took a couple of days and drove 11+ hours (in a mini-van, with a pregnant woman and two preschoolers) to our home...
07 Sep Devotional Thought – The Everlasting Gospel
"Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth--to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people." Revelation 14:6
It seems rather strange to consider a flying angel holding something that is said to be "everlasting." It seems a paradox, a contradiction, that the words "flying" and "everlasting" should be used in the same context. Yous see, to read of something flying brings to my mind that which is moving, fleeting, passing. It is the opposite of that which is permanent or everlasting. In fact, the very act of flying suggests changes of altitude, direction and environment. Thus, the angel the Revelator sees and describes is not some sedentary, stationary figure. He is in constant movement - "flying." Yet, in the hand of this flying angel is something that John says is not moving. It is something that is constant, changeless, permanent, eternal - "the everlasting gospel."