Today on December 20, 2025, Micah Hackett would have turned 26 years old. Instead he is in Heaven, enjoying his seventh year there. I don’t have many of my own words to add to this article; instead I would like to share with you a poem that Micah wrote in 2013. He truly desired to live his life for the Lord, and I pray that my desires would be the same. ‘and...
Today millions around the world will be remembering the death of our Saviour. Some who acknowledge His death may have no idea of its meaning. When Christ died, it meant that the ultimate sacrifice was completed. The Old Testament sacrifices are now satisfied. When Christ rose from the dead, He defeated death. What does that mean for us? We can never work our way to Heaven, because...
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series The BeatitudesThis series continues with a simple meditation on our next “Blessed” statement: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. (Matthew 5:4, ESV) It’s a strange thing is it not? The word “blessed” is not something that we would often associate with a phrase like “those who mourn.” Mourning is painful. We naturally flee from pain. So how could any good come...
https://christianteaching.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Tragedy-of-Perishing-Revelation-20.11-15.mp3 A solemn message on the reality of Hell and the need to consider where one will spend eternity. This is an exposition of Revelation 20:11-15, with a few comments on Luke 13:1-5. Where will you spend eternity? “11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small...
This entry is in the series Meditations in DeuteronomyToday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 13:6-11 This passage contains a most solemn law. Israel was told to love God with the whole heart and with the whole soul, to cling to Him and fear Him. It was no question that pagans were to be slain in the conquest, but what of those within Israel’s borders that allured others into idolatry–what of one’s own family who secretly enticed him to...
This entry is in the series Meditations in DeuteronomyToday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 11:13-17 Verse 13 begins with two inseparable realities. The first is listening and obeying. The second is loving and serving. The first teaches us that one does not truly receive the Word of God until he obeys it, for the very point of God’s Word is that it be lived. The challenge for us is to have no category of Bible reading that does...
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