Righteousness is the spiritual disposition to do good; to practice kindness, being charitable while having a genuine love of mankind, that promotes happiness into other’s lives.…

Righteousness is the spiritual disposition to do good; to practice kindness, being charitable while having a genuine love of mankind, that promotes happiness into other’s lives.…

In today’s blog post, my intent is to briefly, discuss various ways that severe distress of life, potentially threatens the integrity of our personhood while also, providing some real answers to the question: just how are we to respond when suffering, hardships, and unwanted events, impeds our lives?…

Preface

Today’s blog post is a loving reminder from the prophet Samuel and apostle Paul concerning the importance for those who are “Called-out” of darkness into His marvelous light, to continue to persevere during these most difficult and trying times.

Grace and Peace…

“Without humility, we keep all our defects;

and they are only crusted over by pride,

which conceals them from others,

and often from ourselves!”

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld-…

“Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in your friends and they will die and leave you; trust in money and you may have it taken from you; trust in your reputation and some slanderous tongue may blast it; but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.” -Dwight L. Moody-…

My soulful personal reflection, re-speaking, and prayer song to God, reminding Him of His promises to His children.  Psalms 51:10-13 CJB…

Are you looking for a powerful Summer book to read? Let me encourage you to please consider:

http://firstfruitsperspective.org/2019/06/09/book-review-of-dark-agenda-the-war-to-destroy-christian-america/

Grace and…

Grace and Peace to each of you on today and throughout this week. Please consider my new blog post, "The Blessed and Their Delight!"

http://firstfruitsperspective.org/2019/06/02/the-blessed-and-their-delight/#healthyselfchallenge

I hope to invite you to join in with me in my quest at responding to this wonderful #HealThySelfChallenge. Let us discover some very useful steps that we can learn in our battle against evil.…

I have not yet done the research yet I am pretty sure that there are literally millions of books, articles, blogs, films, and conversations that advise us and encourage us on “How To Live a Good Life!”

The purpose of today’s blog post is to communicate the important ways in which each of us may learn just “How to Have a Good Death!”…

In today’s blog post, I wish to briefly highlight some of the most wonderful and deeply spiritual truths about the Tabernacle that we find in our Holy Scriptures. In this blog post, you might read the Gospel Message like never before!

I pray that this post will not just enlighten your mind, but it will ignite your spirit, soul, and body in a very manner that the writer in Psalms 139:14 boldly proclaimed: “I thank you because I am awesomely made, wonderfully;…

Please consider my recent blog post on the National Crisis of Suicide! This post attempts at answering the question, why are so many are "Choosing Suicide over Life!"

http://firstfruitsperspective.org/2019/05/05/choosing-suicide-over-life/

An Expose’ on Deception, Shaming, and Soul Destruction

This coming May 31, 2019, will be an entire year removed since The Washington Post released a weblog post written by Joshua Pease entitled, “The Epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the Evangelical Church.” I find it very difficult to report these findings in that much like the Catholic church, the Protestant and Evangelical church…

The Last Passover Meal of The Master

It was on a Thursday evening prior to His execution the next day Friday afternoon that Jesus of Nazareth had finally arrived in Jerusalem. For throughout His very short three years of public ministry, He constantly reminded His disciples that He would be betrayed into the hands of men...,…

As I paged through the first section of the paper, I came across a thought-provoking essay written by Annabelle Gurwitch entitled, “Cremation Nation”: Our New Way to Go, March 29, 2019. As I read this article I knew that this subject matter deserved thoughtful if not Historical, Relational, and Biblical consideration.  Grace and Peace…

This week’s blog post is a soulful and heartfelt dedication to those family members, friends, and associates who are facing life’s greatest challenges. You know the ones, those unwelcomed and unwanted life challenges that always come at the wrong time, the ones that force each of us to ask the question, how do I learn to rejoice in my Faith when I struggle with the inner and external realities of hopelessness; sickness, fear of death, soul damage, isolationism, and…

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. James 4:14
Grace and Peace

https://youtu.be/v7hesjUnkbA

It was during this moment that I begin to meditate on the notion there seems to be a certain spiritual blessedness that is associated with the Winter season. This blessedness at least to me could very easily be seen within the surrounding landscape of Stone Mountain Park, yet the greater question lies in how much of this same spiritual truth is reflective of my own life as a faithful disciple of the Master?…