Morningside Devotionals

Dr. James C. Taylor, co-authored a power work with Dr. Harold Bryson called "Building Sermons to Meet Peoples Needs," as a student of the great Dr. James C. Taylor, it is my pleasure to distinctly remember him and his wonderful, loving, Christian ways. As John would say of Jesus so would I say of Dr. James C. Taylor, I knew him, and was with him and know that today, he is with Jesus. So the greatness of us, who we really are, comes at us daily; but the sum will come back to us, from those whom we touch and reach and influence. Likely it will not come from the work that we do, unless that work touches people and that will last.  At 3 A.M., this morning it hit me how powerfully Nehemiah affected time and history. The mental blows came at me from Nehemiah chapter 11 and from teaching, from the past. Many times people who say that there is no God, they scoff at those of us who believe in God, and it hit me, Nehemiah chapter 11, verse 6- these men, stood, in th...

So many times you and I have heard people preach sermons speaking of vision as if though it were bad- or, not a part of faith?  Now here my word means the literal act of beholding- of looking, of taking in an image and processing it.  You and I live in a world where such is necessary for us to live and survive- unless we learn a set of skills which are no longer involving the use of sight. Many preachers and teachers make the mistake of separating the Bible and it's truths out of the realm of the senses- insisting, as it were, that the Bible is extrasensory and God demands extrasensory behavior. Such statements aren't in the Bible, which contains a great many statements about the use of our faculties, to the glory of God.  In fact let me go so far as to say that the Bible insists that we marshal all our energy into the realm of hearing and believing God that is defined by the things which ought to be, but aren't. That really, finally and ultimately this ...