J. Grant Swank 4th of July: America's Christian Heritage
President George Washington wrote a prayer addressed to "O most glorious God, in Jesus Christ" and ended it with this: "Let me live according to those holy rules which thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word.. Direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Bless O Lord all the people of this land."
Jul 4, 2009 - 8:04:38 AM
J. Grant Swank Keep Your Health Care Option
I have friends in Canada who are still waiting for their medical help. They have been put on lists. They have to wait for the list to shorten so that they can supposedly get some help.
Jul 2, 2009 - 8:09:02 AM
J. Grant Swank Bernard Madoff is Devil Money Lust
Jesus said that the love of money is the root of all evil. Madoff surely loved money as his god. Therefore, fill in the blanks.
Jul 1, 2009 - 8:28:04 AM
J. Grant Swank Godly Spiritual Fathers
One may not think that we could look to Peter for a sermon on Father's Day. But that is exactly what I propose to do. Yes, this Peter who once betrayed Jesus has now become stalwart, courageous and holy before God. We find these qualities especially in Acts 5.
Jun 30, 2009 - 9:09:27 AM
J. Grant Swank How Mothers Teach Daughters to Yell at Their Fathers
It is very, very subtle - over time, involving complicated life situations, supported by female bonding, allowing for anti-male emotions, pulling from the baser nature of the female, and so forth.
Jun 28, 2009 - 10:49:26 AM
J. Grant Swank So America's Founders Weren't Christian?
President George Washington wrote a prayer addressed to "O most glorious God, in Jesus Christ" and ended it with this: "Let me live according to those holy rules which thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word. Direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Bless O Lord all the people of this land."
Jun 26, 2009 - 11:35:41 AM
J. Grant Swank My Bio Strings Miracles
A Miracle is something that happens that only God can perform. Some miracles are immediate-fast. Others are slow moving.
Jun 24, 2009 - 12:43:37 PM
J. Grant Swank I am Married to Ms. Mathematical Mind
Yes, she has to have all equations solved pronto. That means that when there is some iota off center, it has to be put back on center immediately.
Jun 22, 2009 - 9:39:46 AM
J. Grant Swank United Church of Canada Dying Dying Dying
The United Church of Canada has baptized apostasy as legitimate theology. It is pro-choice. It is pro-homosexual practice. It is pro-everything liberal. It is anti-Scripture as divine revelation. Many clergy do not regard Christ as divine.
Jun 21, 2009 - 8:55:34 AM
J. Grant Swank Where are the Fathers?
Forty percent of American youth and 80 percent of all minority children are born out of wedlock. What happened to the vows at the altar?
Jun 19, 2009 - 8:50:58 AM
J. Grant Swank WWIII = 2 Messiahs at War
The Islamic messiah is waiting in the wings for apocalyptic anguish to envelop the globe. Then he will pierce the skies to reign upon Earth.
Jun 18, 2009 - 12:45:46 AM
J. Grant Swank The Dark Side of Religion
Even those profs who appear whiz kids of contemporary understanding shy away from revealing to students the dark side of religion. It is not until one is in the work for awhile, sometimes a short while and for others a bit of a while, that the dark shadows start to show.
Jun 17, 2009 - 8:42:32 AM
J. Grant Swank I Told Him About Jesus: He Cut Off Her Head!
One day while several of us were seated outside the shop, a gorgeous female approached. The young fellow immediately stood, approached her, giving all signals that they were close friends now meeting on the sidewalk. There was the warm embrace and kiss.
Jun 16, 2009 - 7:55:43 AM
J. Grant Swank Sin and Assurance
God calls His children to be holy. Positively, to be holy is to hunger for righteousness. Negatively, to be holy is to detest sin.
Jun 15, 2009 - 7:54:26 AM
J. Grant Swank Help There If You Want It
The upshot of it was that Mark had come to the end of himself with his drinking and other drug misuse. For years, his life had been a selfish mess. Now in his mid-thirties, he was desperate.
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:23:19 AM
J. Grant Swank I Can't Keep Up!
I can't keep up with God's expectations, His commandments, holy principles, all the stipulations set forth in Scripture concerning being a Christian. I have a messed up past. My life at present is confusing. I am not what I would like to be. I am out of sorts today. I have been less than my best. I want be wiser, perform better.
Jun 12, 2009 - 11:00:27 AM
J. Grant Swank Peace Head
Jesus Himself said that He came to Earth not to do His will but the will of the Father. That meant that Jesus surrendered His thoughts to heaven's way-thought by thought.
Jun 11, 2009 - 5:06:32 AM
J. Grant Swank Reading
When Sir Robert Walpole was dismissed from all his responsibilities at his work, he retired to Houghton and walked into the library. When pulling down a book and holding it some minutes to his eyes, he immediately and rather sullenly put it back on the shelf for another.
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:11:40 AM
J. Grant Swank Due Season
What is "due season"? It is the time moment when a season comes due. Only God knows that time moment. It is futile for mortal clay to attempt to move into that time moment.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:50:35 AM
J. Grant Swank What You Can Do About Abortion
I received an email from a pro-life woman who voiced concern that she is not a public speaker or writer who can champion the anti-abortion cause. So she asked: What is it that I can do to help?
Jun 9, 2009 - 1:38:42 PM
J. Grant Swank Faith Survived
The demons crawled the church walls. Now I knew what the missionaries were talking about. They said they were attacked by devils on the mission field. Sometimes it was a witchdoctor. Other times it was the invisible spirits. But devils they were. And those agents were after blood.
Jun 7, 2009 - 10:50:38 AM
J. Grant Swank Learning How To Trust All Over Again
Once one has had the hatchet put to his ministerial neck, blood flowing in all directions, it is only natural / normal for one to be gun shy about any further relationships. That is so particularly when trying to build any bridge with a person called "Christian" or "religious" or "spiritual".
Jun 6, 2009 - 11:08:19 AM
J. Grant Swank Coping with Betrayal
When I was first in ministry, I wondered why older clergy and their spouses frequently looked tired and aloof. At gatherings, they would be somewhat distant. It was as if a screen had been put up between their inner selves and the rest of the world.
Jun 5, 2009 - 8:38:18 AM
J. Grant Swank Think Christ
It starts with the Bible. Start the day with the Word. Underline a particular passage that Christ is underlining in your thinking. Take that passage with you throughout the day.
Jun 2, 2009 - 2:01:03 AM
J. Grant Swank Pre-Trib Rapture = Hoax
The pre-trib rapture concept was manufactured in the 1800s in an 18 year-old Plymouth Brethren girl's dream, told to her Pastor, John Darby, and then relayed to C. I. Scofield, who bought into the dream as revealed truth. Scofield placed this pre-tribulation rapture notion as a footnote in his popular Bible, hence the spread of the myth.
May 31, 2009 - 5:53:17 AM
J. Grant Swank Sanctification is Sweet Surrender
For many, the Bible teaching regarding sanctification is difficult to understand. Perhaps it is the length and strange sound of the term itself. Maybe it is because it has not been defined simply enough.
May 30, 2009 - 5:52:34 AM
J. Grant Swank The Pimp Lost Out
Sarah, once a call girl, became a pastor's wife. The years continue to move along. No word from two sons. All the while, Dick has them on the West coast. He'd blackened in his living quarters so as to watch pornography day and night. The sons are subjected to his evil bent.
May 28, 2009 - 9:53:09 AM
J. Grant Swank America's Hope Rock
I walked into a huge church in Texas. The parking lot was packed to the gills. Young adults were heading toward the doors of the sanctuary, Bibles in hand.
May 27, 2009 - 2:05:51 AM
J. Grant Swank Fear Not!
If Jesus surmounted all that indescribable fear so as to conquer it in resurrection power, then there is no fear which can attack mortal that is as great or greater.
May 26, 2009 - 5:35:36 AM
J. Grant Swank Marks of the Cross
Paul surely did cross his skin with the marks of the cross. He was justly proud of the surrender of his mortal frame to the work of Jesus. There was no complaint in his final statement in his epistle to the Galatians. It was penned as a matter of faith fact. Paul had acted out in life what he had preached and taught to others.
May 25, 2009 - 10:55:27 AM
J. Grant Swank Glory of His Name
The name of Jesus has been scorned throughout the world throughout the church age due to the planet's rejection of its Savior.
May 24, 2009 - 3:26:43 AM
J. Grant Swank Walk Worthy
Only those who carry genuinely the cross are worthy to be known as grace children. "Walk worthy. . ."
May 23, 2009 - 2:36:19 AM
J. Grant Swank Birds in Flight
Birds in flight are one of nature's pictures which grip us speechless. I recall seated upon a mountain in outdoor worship with friends when a large bird circled the clouds, then disappeared atop the pines.
May 22, 2009 - 4:34:15 AM
J. Grant Swank Love Beyond Degree
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." I John 4:10
May 21, 2009 - 4:29:20 AM
J. Grant Swank We Shall Reap
The world lives with moment-by-moment uncertainty. Anything can happen any time. There is no guarantee of safety nor meaning. All is "up for grabs."
May 20, 2009 - 1:02:29 AM
J. Grant Swank Affairs Bend The Kids?
I will not be quiet. I will not acquiesce and make believe that everything is fine and dandy within the clan. I will defend the little girl to the last drop of blood in my body."
May 19, 2009 - 5:03:44 AM
J. Grant Swank For Your Children
As Jesus was being hauled up Calvary's hill, there were those who cried out to Him, lamenting His plight. Jesus responded by stating: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."
May 18, 2009 - 8:20:49 AM
