Building on the Foundation

A man staggered up out of the ocean as lightning crashed all around him, briefly illuminating his surroundings. In front of him stretched a swampy bog with no visible path, and behind him, the gray ocean stretched into the unseen distance. A vague feeling of having been briefly dead washed over him as he stood dripping with salt water, undecided about the next move. A strange warmth and clearness of mind settled upon him as another flash of lightning revealed a craggy castle looming in the far distance. Somehow, he knew this castle was his destination, and in it, he would be safe. The only question was, how was he to get there? The next flash of lightning revealed a shimmering sword lying on the beach off to his right. He stumbled over to it and hefted it in his right hand. Scratches on the blade caught his eye, and he tilted it to get a better look at them. The scratches morphed into words as he peered at them, faintly glowing in the dark. I am the way, the truth, and the life. My wor

A good man is a very dangerous man with his power under control. A bad man is a man who has nothing under control. Allow me to explain. With the advent of the feminist movement, which has led to the transgender movement and still has far more evils to accomplish, we have seen a tragic war waged on femininity and masculinity. They are under an attack so vicious that it warrants us to step back and ask, “What is so scary about these things that Satan so desperately seeks to destroy them?” Masculinity is a heavily misunderstood topic in today’s day and age, and false masculine icons are pervasive in the vacuum that a lack of true masculinity leaves. Their message is enticing to young men because it preaches about service to self and indulging every sort of physical lust, but with “honor.” True masculinity is the opposite summed up in one word, “meekness.”  When we men hear the word meekness, we cringe inwardly. Who wants to be meek, after all? We mentally associate meekness or gentleness

  In Exodus 20:8-11, God said, 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. This, of course, is the fourth of the Ten Commandments. The Sabbath commandment. You’ve probably heard someone speak of the Sabbath as a “test commandment,” which it is, because it tests how much we truly want to follow God. Many of God’s other commandments, people have little or no issue with. No murder? No stealing? No adultery? No false accusations? Most people agree that these are great laws. But the Sabbath? Tell people God wants them to rest on the