Proverbs 3:5-6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean to your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight”.   Early this month, one of my favorite athletes, Tim Tebow, arrived at the New York Jets training camp […] [READ MORE]

Proverbs 18:21 "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof".  When this new year began, I started a Bible study from Kenneth Copeland's Believers Voice of Victory broadcast called 100 Days of Prosperity with Pastor George Pearsons.  It has […] [READ MORE]

Ephesians 3:12 – “In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.”  Remember years ago when you would check into a hotel and they would give you an actual key to your room, not a card, but a real key?  I guess it was too costly […] [READ MORE]

Romans 12:2 (Amplified Bible) - "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs] but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude]."  Certain times of the year, especially around the holidays […] [READ MORE]

  Genesis 13:8 - “And Abram said unto Lot, let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we be brethren.”   Message Translation: “Abram said to Lot, ‘Let’s not have any fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds, after […] [READ MORE]

Psalm 24:7 “Lift up your heads…that the King of glory may come in.”  David wrote in Psalm 40:12, “For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken such hold on me that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and […] [READ MORE]

2 Corinthians 4:18 – “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen, for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal”.  Honey I Shrunk the Kids, a 1989 comedy about an inventor who accidentally […] [READ MORE]

Romans 8:37 – “What shall we say to these things?  If God be for us, who can be against us”.  I’ve only played golf a handful of times in my life, tennis is really my game, but I love to watch golf.  For those of you who watch golf, you must […] [READ MORE]

John 8:32 - “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.  In 1996, about six weeks before our daughter Joy was expected, I received a phone call from the hospital where my wife had spent many months, saying that today was the day that she was […] [READ MORE]

Hebrews 12:23 - "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect".  In my travels up and down the New Jersey turnpike, around exit four, I always take notice of […] [READ MORE]

Genesis 1:3 - "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light"  The most watched event in television history was none other than the 2012 Olympics.  It was so exciting, from seeing Michael Phelps winning his 22nd medal, now the most decorated Olympian of all time, to watching the […] [READ MORE]

Hebrews 12:3 - "Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds".Did you know that the state of New Jersey has established what is called a "safe surrender" program offering persons wanted by the police for non-violent crimes to turn […] [READ MORE]

Exodus 3:8 - "I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land into a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey…" Sweet Lord!  The Episcopal Bishop of New York recently welcomed […] [READ MORE]

Proverbs 18:21 - "Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."  Ask my family, speaking words that bring life is something that I am real passionate about.  There are so many phrases that we use on an everyday basis […] [READ MORE]

Matthew 16:18 - “And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”.  Identity theft, where someone “steals” another person’s identity and pretends to be them, is one of the fastest growing […] [READ MORE]

Psalm 1:1-2 "Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.  But his delight is only in the law of the Lord; and in His law […] [READ MORE]

Daniel 11:32 - "The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits."   First Tim Tebow in football, now there's a new sensation in basketball.  A second year unknown from Taiwan, named Jeremy Lin.  A Harvard University graduate, a school better know for academics than superstar athletes, picked […] [READ MORE]

Matthew 11:28-29 (The Message) - "Jesus said to them, "Do you really believe I can do this?  They said, "Why yes Master"!  He touched their eyes and said, "Become what you believe", it happened, they saw".   I heard a story about a little boy who went out in the backyard to […] [READ MORE]

Mark 9:23 - "Jesus said unto him, if thou can believe, all things are possible to him that believeth."   There is a phenomenon in professional football that is taking the country by storm...a young man named Tim Tebow, a second year quarterback for the Denver Broncos. Though he lead his […] [READ MORE]

Isaiah 53:4 - "Sure he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrow".   I'm sure you've heard people in the world use the phrase "good grief". Well, when I hear it, I can't help but respond on the inside of me, "good grief...NOT!" In Isaiah 53:4, Isaiah prophesies, "surely He […] [READ MORE]

Joshua 1:9 “ Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid neither be dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever you go”.  I was so disturbed by a story I recently read about a certain teacher in California, who, if anyone sneezed in his class and someone […] [READ MORE]

1 Kings 7:17 "And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.  And the Lord opened his eyes; and he saw; and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha."  The latest player on the PGA tour to […] [READ MORE]

Amos 9:11 - "In that day, I will restore David's fallen tent.  I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be." A while back I was at a banquet center in Woodbridge, NJ, enjoying a lively celebration, when the police showed up in […] [READ MORE]

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. " 2 Corinthians 5:21 For many years I've heard, "I'm the healed that the enemy is trying to make sick", which is such a powerful truth  […] [READ MORE]