Growing up in East Texas during the late ‘40s and early ‘50s provided a great opportunity for a young man like me to meet many special men who would have a profound impact on my life. The background of these men ranged from the educated to the illiterate, from the successful business man to the hard working man who spent long back breaking hours in the woods cutting logs with a cross cut saw.
Tag: Mens Corner
His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Meditations By Apostle John Dean
The thing that really bothers me is when I look on the faces of people in a crowded church and see that same look of being unwanted and insignificant. After all…we are supposed to be the ones with the answers to such problems.
Johnny
One Sunday morning I sent our ministry helpers downtown to pick up a van load of drunks and street people for the morning service. After a while the back door of the church opened and my helpers were dragging a drunken bleeding man into the building. The man’s name was Johnny. He was the third generation in his family who slept under a bridge in Houston. The reason Johnny was bleeding and crying was because when he saw the mission van coming to pick up people, he fell on his face in the middle of the street as he tried to run away. His face looked as if it had been run through a meat grinder, and his nose was badly broken. He was in such pain that he was weeping out loud.
Who Is Your Daddy? Meditations By Apostle John Dean
The church of today seems to be filled with spiritual orphans. Many have natural parents, but they still feel fatherless. If the question was asked “Who is your Daddy” many would have to say I don’t know? Perhaps this is why Paul said, “For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.”
Did You Bring the Money? Meditations By Apostle John Dean
Some lessons we learn seem to be just for that particular moment while others lessons are for a lifetime. In the case of our text, “God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus,” there is a life lesson we must keep on learning. Sad to say, we have to keep on reminding ourselves that God is our supply.
How Do You Eat Your Corn?, Meditations By Apostle John Dean
A few months ago, after preaching the Sunday morning message in a small East Texas church…I went to a home for lunch with some of my dear friends. Everyone in that family is a master cook, so you can imagine how the table was filled with all of those country delicacies. Even though the table was large, the extended family was even larger and more so with my family joining in.
Abraham, Isaac, and? Meditations By Apostle John Dean
If the first born is the son of special blessings, then it would behoove us to ask, what makes the first, first? Whatever the answer to that question is, it has a direct relationship to all of us today who are on this side of the cross. It is obvious this picture begins to clear up as we look at it in light of what Jesus did for us on the cross. It is not by birth that we are made first born but by rebirth.
Where Have The Fathers Gone? Meditations By Apostle John Dean
All clay has a purpose but all clay cannot be used for fine pottery. On the potter’s wheel was written the scripture, Jer 18:4 “The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him”.
He Took My Place, Meditations By Apostle John Dean
Perhaps in some small way that experience was a prophetic picture of my future life. The Lord always knows where I am. I am happy that He does because I only want to be where He wants me to be.
Many Fathers Meditations By Apostle John Dean
God has given every man the biological materials to be successful when those materials are given back to God for His blessing. However, success in building your spiritual house depends on how you relate to and learn from other men. The key to each man’s success has a direct relationship to his willingness to sit at the feet of and learn from the wise men that God has placed around him. It seems as though the wisdom of the Lord is like a giant puzzle and God has given a piece of that puzzle to everyone else. It’s our responsibility to retrieve each of those pieces by being a submissive learner. As we retrieve each piece and learn, we then see God’s ordained plan for our life begin to take form, thus ushering us into our destiny.