Hi, I’m Howie Campbell, and this is a Wisdom and Truth Minute.
The weather report called for sun and clouds today with no rain in sight. Ha ha! I say that as the rain comes down out of a totally overcast sky. There’s an old saying that goes, “Don’t believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.” Well, that’s extreme, but we do need to be cautious and check things out. The Bible tells us that regarding spiritual things. In 1 John 4:1, the apostle warns us, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” Check it out for yourself, my friend.
Hi, I’m Howie Campbell, and this is a Wisdom and Truth Minute.
My friend, almost 2,000 years ago the apostle John penned these words, as recorded in Revelation 22:20: “Jesus said, ‘Surey, I come quickly.’ Amen. Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.” Born-again Jews and Gentiles have been looking forward to His return ever since He went back to heaven. But when He does return, where will He come, and for what?
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 give the answer, specifically, verse 17: “The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.”
Hi, I’m Howie Campbell, and this is a Wisdom and Truth Minute.
Recently, some friends of mine had a heated verbal exchange over politics. No surprise there, right? Many people I know have broken off friendships because of that. At one point, the military man said to the uber-liberal something like, “Well, I still love you, man.” What an amazing statement that true friendship goes way beyond emotion and differences of opinion.
My friend, that is exactly what Jesus came to show and teach. He said, “… [He] call[s] us no longer servants, but friends; and [his] love is everlasting” (John 15:15). In Proverbs 17:17 we find this golden nugget: “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Hi, I’m Howie Campbell, and this is a Wisdom and Truth Minute.
You know, there’s nothing I like better on a hot summer day when I’m really thirsty, than a cool glass of fresh spring water. Clean water is so important to life. A person can live quite a while without food, but not without water. It is one ingredient that is crucial to life.
The spirit of God is like that. He is crucial to kingdom living. Being filled with God’s holy spirit is like being a fresh spring of water to those around us. Jesus said, “He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38).