Did you ever walk into a store and the first section you encountered was the Cosmetics Department? Often, the first clue is the overpowering, knock-you-out fragrances. Behind the counter are male and female cosmeticians wearing an exaggerated mask of makeup—sometimes in excessive quantities. The whole thrust of their sales strategy is surface beauty: rings on most fingers and toes, glittering bracelets, neck chains, ear danglers and other body modifications, puckered painted lips, thick pasty eyelashes, elaborate hairstyles, and frighteningly long, extended coloured fingernails.

Perhaps such a characterization of a Cosmetics Department has been slightly exaggerated. But you get the point. Their primary focus is external surface beauty.

Published on heaven4sure.com on May 14, 2024.

Christians continue to debate where King Saul ended up in eternity —Heaven or Hell. Not everyone who has dealings with God ends up in Heaven! There are many episodes in King Saul's life worth considering, but one is a classic. No one should overlook the timeless principle underlying this story....

Published on heaven4sure.com on May 21, 2024

Have you ever wondered if you've crossed an invisible line with the Lord in your prayers? Have you worried that maybe you've gone beyond what you should ask of Him or exhausted His patience with your persistent requests?

Published on heaven4sure.com May 28, 2024

Are you feeling inadequate today over something that looks too big for you?  Have you obeyed His voice? Is He saying to you: “Whatever you have, bring it here to Me?”  Humanly speaking, we’re no match for the need ahead of us. But if we take whatever we have to Him and place it in His Hands, He’ll use our inadequacies, frailties and our smallness to accomplish what needs to be done and He will get the glory – not us!

Positive things were happening in rapid succession and things were going great for Peter as the angel led him out of prison – until those impregnable iron gates loomed ahead of them.

Impossible! Impossible! Really?

Remote control doors existed long before the patented invention of 1931. The Lord pressed the remote control button in Heaven, and without even a momentary transmission lag, those impossible gates swung open as if they had just been lubed a day earlier.

Is the Lord’s Supper important? Where you go on Sunday – is the Lord’s Supper a significant, well attended and deeply cherished activity of the local church? Or is it sort of optional, hit-or-miss, once-in-a-while, an occasional or annual or quarterly type of thing? What about you personally – where does the Lord’s Supper rank in your list of priorities and spiritual commitments?

It is never wisdom from above that causes a Christian to arrogantly dig in their heels and defiantly challenge an opponent with this expression: “Over my dead body!” Wisdom from above will never cause a Christian to say: “I don’t care what you say or show me. I will never, no, never change my mind.”

Can you imagine someone slicing up the pages of the Word of God with a pocket knife and then heaving them into the fire? That’s exactly what King Jehoiakim did. To hear the Bible being read and then to burn it – is horrendous! What’s the next worst thing to burning the Bible?

Is it possible I am becoming an insensitive person? What about you? Would anyone have the courage to tell me to my face that I am becoming a very insensitive person? It’s definitely not a compliment – but is it the truth?

Have you wondered how Elizabeth felt when she found out that her much younger relative not only shared in the honour of having Gabriel visit her, but that Mary was told she too would have a son and that He would not just be the forerunner of the Messiah but Messiah Himself?