Life's Inanities and Ironies

Beloved readers, feel the chill wind of spiritual warfare whipping through your soul as you read these words. We live in perilous times—times foretold in Scripture—when deception crashes like tidal waves against the church, and the air itself seems thick with the acrid smoke of hell's forge. Today, I invite you to plunge into the blazing furnace of truth found in John 8 , where our Lord Jesus Christ, eyes flashing like flames from heaven's throne, confronts the religious elite of His day and unmasks the true source of their rebellion: Satan , the father of lies. John 8:44 thunders with divine authority: "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." Picture the scene in the temple courts: dust swirling under sandaled feet, the cro...

Every year during Holy Week , we walk slowly through the Passion narrative, and every year Luke 22 hits like a freight train. In just twenty-five verses we watch Satan enter one of the Twelve , we watch Jesus institute the Lord’s Supper , and we watch the disciples argue about who is the greatest—all at the same table, on the same night, just hours before the cross. That collision of darkness and light, of betrayal and redemption, of pride and servanthood is not just ancient history. It is a mirror held up to every Bible-believing church in 2025.  1. Satan Never Stopped Wearing a Church Name Tag    “Then Satan entered Judas , surnamed Iscariot , who was numbered among the twelve” (v. 3).   Judas had been baptized, chosen, sent out to preach and heal, and entrusted with the money bag. Yet the devil found a landing strip in his heart because he loved money more than the Master. Brethren, false professors have not gone extinct. They still carry Bibles, sing th...