“How sad would it be if that were our lot; God sets the standard, we try to live up to it, but we never can. We would spend a lifetime trying to please Him but never even getting close.”
Author Archives: James Travis
Amos 7.1-6 – Perspective
“I would offer that God was teaching Amos, Israel, and us by extension the power and importance of prayer.”
Amos 6.8-14 – Can we escape?
“[Do we] trust in the misguided thought that, well, God is basically all good so we can do as we wish and then expect Him to bless us because He is good, and God is love…?”
Come Thou Fount – Thursday Music
“Even though we are unfaithful, He is still faithful, and hymns like this put this awesome truth into words.”
Amos 6.1-7 – Obligation to glorify
“If we really want to play the comparison game here, we will always lose…none of my friends own an oil field or travel everywhere by helicopter…”
James Travis 