Dale Cresap's blog

Do you find that one result of hard work is more opportunities for hard work? This is something to beware of if your goal in life is to minimize effort. But that is not a plan for an abundant life.

I command children to obey their parents and all to be subject to the authority of government. Do you claim to be exempt if those in authority over you are not believers? Yet my word does not allow this excuse.

My word is full of invitations for you to present your requests to me and promises that you will have what you ask for. Have you considered the magnitude of this amazing promise?

Most people do not examine their faults because it is an unpleasant experience. Others examine their faults for the purpose of condemning themselves.

Have you ever heard of ‘killing time’? Have you ever done it? This concept is not in principle consistent with the abundant life I offer you. It is no blessing to have too much idle time on your hands.

Do you live with a strong sense of the spiritual reality of everything you encounter? Even believers are quick to divide the world between the spiritual and the secular, and most things end up in the secular realm. Have I not made all these things?

Do you think that someone’s words are a true indicator of their heart? By your words you shall be justified or condemned. Yet thoughts precede words and are a more certain measure.

My word says that I send rain and sun on the just and on the unjust. Do you think of sun as good and rain as bad and interpret this to mean that there is joy and sorrow in the life of believer and unbeliever alike?

If someone comes to you in distress to share their troubles with you they often complain about some person who has wronged them. If you decline to enter into unrighteous judgment against this person are you accused of being uncaring?

Debt can be a form of bondage but I would have you to be free and unencumbered, owing no man anything but your debt of love.