Posts by Pressing On Together

Exchange Anxiety for Peace Are you anxious about something? Certainly, there are a lot of potential triggers: pandemic, illnesses, restrictions, and losses in your own family due to the virus, civil unrest, drought, floods, hurricanes, etc., etc., etc. There is a way to get peace. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and…

Want What God Wants I want a righteous, prosperous, generous America. Is that what God wants? Facts Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. (Psalm 115:3)  Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. (Revelation 4:8)  The Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind. (Daniel 4:17, NASB95)  And I…

God told us! Don’t be surprised! But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers…

No Matter What God told Habakkuk He would bring judgment on Israel with the Chaldeans. In three chapters, Habakkuk went from mourning his country’s sins, to questioning why God would bring judgment on them by the country more wicked than they, to determining to praise God no matter what. Though the fig tree should not blossom…

Be Alert, Be Available After 9/11 I found people so much more open to conversations about Jesus Christ. Now, during the health and economic effects of Covid-19, and civil unrest, some are more willing to listen. We, as Christians, have always had the command to be His witnesses (Acts 1:8,  Matthew 28:19).   We have been given…

Be Ready In heaven we, Christians, are described as having “made ourselves ready.” The marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready. It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. (Revelation 19:7–8) Now is the…

The Ugliness of Sin I’m in agony about current events, and realized it—ALL of it—is rooted in sin.  Slavery is a bad evil. Sin at every step. Sin by those who captured and sold humans, sin by those who traded, transported, and bought humans, sin by societies/nations that made slavery legal, sin by those who…

If we watch any news, we can’t avoid seeing violence, arson, destruction, looting, “random” attacks, unjust killing. It is easy, at least for me, to want immediate and harsh consequences. Instant judgment. And, certainly, the US needs a legal system that is timely and just. But, do I pray for the perpetrators? Or just condemn?…

I am overwhelmed. A killer virus. An unjust death. Protests. Riots. Violence. Murders. Part of a major US city taken over.  I believe Almighty God is sovereign. I believe that for His children, this will make us more like Christ and bring Him glory. I believe He is able to do far more abundantly beyond all…

Opening Up The US is opening up after more than two months of various restrictions due to the new virus. Our individual experiences were and are very different. In my own family some continued to work, some began home schooling their children, some had their businesses closed, one lost his job permanently. Each of us…