Luke 3:8-9–Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.  In our relationships, they usually grow when we seek to be united in present knowledge of one another.  The […]

Jeremiah 33:6-8–Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. 7  I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.  Jeremiah spent his ministry trying to convince Judah/Israel not to […]

Ephesian 2:4-5–But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved—   Whenever I find myself in “one those moods” where self-pity tries to overwhelm me, my main […]

As I am sure you do too, I have a mother and father who gave themselves tirelessly for me and my brother. When they decided to immigrate to the States in their 40s, they were essentially giving up on their lives for the good of their children. They are of that generation that thought it […]

Would you like to know exactly when you would die? If somehow the time of your death could be predicted accurately, would you like to know? How would it change what and how you do things if you did know? If God told you that you would die on November 3rd of 2027, what would […]

Acts 20:22-24-And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.  In our natural desire to be secure and avoid being uncomfortable, you may not reflexively say, “I […]

We often get our hands bitten while we are feeding others. This literally happened to me when I was a child. I had a puppy that fell into a sewer. As I rescued it and to calm it down, my mom gave me a pill to drop it in the puppy’s mouth. But as my […]