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February 11, 2026

Ahh...those were the days...when I used to cut down trees and chop up my own firewood. It was hot, hard work that I found deeply satisfying. The place where we built our home back in Texas had a number of older oak trees, some I needed to remove before we poured our slab, and then others I thinned out over time. Whenever I did lay a tree down, I usually let it sit there for a week or two before I would start to split it and get the area cleaned up. And something that I witnessed on every occasion was when the tree was first cut down, most of the branches and the green leaves remained intact. It appeared to be a ‘living tree’ that was laying on its side. But one would notice after a few days...the leaves began to ‘wilt’; and the longer it laid there... the leaves turned brown as it became quite obvious...this tree was no longer ‘living’, for it had ‘died’ and was in the early stages of decaying. Never, in all the years of doing this, did a cut down tree continue living, ...

February 10, 2026

If you have ever heard a car engine backfire, you know it’s abrupt and loud enough to send cats leaping vertically into the air, jolt sleeping babies awake, screaming, and cause soldiers who struggle with PTSD to ‘hit the deck’ cowering in fear. And if it’s something your car does, or maybe a close-by neighbor’s car...one hopes the problem is fixed sooner than later. Suppose you do have a neighbor whose car develops this obnoxious problem and they apologize to you for its unruly disturbances, informing you they are taking it to a local garage the next day to have fixed. Then, a few days later while enjoying your first cup of coffee that morning, you hear that neighbor getting ready to leave out for work, or maybe to church and as they pull out of their driveway...there goes the loud explosion of their car backfiring once again. It causes you to recoil, spilling coffee down your front, as local dogs in the neighborhood begin barking loudly. Maybe it happens one more time...

February 09, 2026

One of the great myths that usually get debunked early on for lots of young people, is this notion that if a person gets married...they will no longer struggle or ‘burn’ with sexual ‘lust’. Yes, Paul did write and say that if it was not your ‘gifting’ to remain single, and presumably ‘celibate’, then getting married was highly recommended because it was ‘better to marry than to burn with passion’ (1 Cor. 7:8-9). But let me say it again loud and clear: Marriage is not the ‘cure all’ when it comes to overcoming sexual lust. I should also point out here that simply growing older, where it can be normal for sexual desire to diminish over time due to lowering levels of testosterone and such, does not exempt one from battling with sexual lust, because there are plenty of ‘older men’, well in to their 70’s and 80’s, if not older...who are addicted to porn, or worse. It cannot be overstated enough...that we live in a world greatly influenced by wicked spirits of darkness and evil that ...

February 08, 2026

You do realize that had God not given us this thing called ‘sexual desire’... the human race would have probably come to an abrupt end. And I don’t think I need to elaborate on this one point, do I? When God created man and woman, His first command to them was to “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth..” (Gen. 2:26-28) I’m not quite certain as to how this would have all played out prior to the ‘fall’, or if things would have been any different, but we do know that both Adam and Eve walked about ‘naked’ in the garden, which today might be ‘problematic’ for many of us. But something changed, and hence, the reason the first order of business after they ‘sinned’ was God put some clothes or coverings on them. (Gen.3:21). Welcome back to our series as we look at how Christians should deal with and regulate the satisfying of two legitimate physical needs we all have, the consuming of food and fulfilling sexual desires. As we discussed previously, it is quite possible that when we ...

February 07, 2026

If you don’t believe that ‘spirits’ can become attached to simple physical needs and appetites (that are God-given), then you are choosing ignorance and darkness over truth and light. (John 3:19-20) Have you never watched shows that focused on ‘eating disorders’, highlighting the journeys of people who mask past wounds by piling on weight by the hundreds of pounds (my 600-pound Life); or listened to the testimonies of women who suffer from ‘Anorexia’ and all they see ...when they look at their ‘skin and bone bodies’ in a mirror...is a ‘fat person’? And for the life of me, I don’t even want to know how...or why any human could find ‘sexual fulfillment’ by engaging in ‘sexual activities’ with young children, or babies...and yes...even animals; but there is no shortage of people who do. I also have a hard time believing that an adult just wakes up one morning and begins to engage in such activities on a whim. There usually is a ‘story’ behind such activity that leads to such despi...

February 06, 2026

“All that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 2:16-17) Have you ever heard that expression before, the ‘lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life’? It is pretty much the gateway to sin and yes...a door for a ‘spiritual enemy’ we hear much about in scripture who we are told to ‘resist’ and to ‘give no place to’ (Eph. 4:27; James 4:7). And if we don’t deal with him...and ‘the sin that can so easily ensnare us’ (Heb. 12:1), then things won’t bode well for us (John 5:14; Matt. 12:43-45; Luke 13:3,5). Those were the three ‘windows’ through which the serpent tempted Eve back in the garden (Gen. 3:1-5) when she yielded to it and ate from that tree (Gen. 2:17); and it is the three areas in which Jesus was tempted by the devil...and He resisted on all accounts (Luke 4:1-13)...