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 […]
Judges 14:3-4-But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.” 4 […]
A burn out and depression come when our hope is dashed. It is, therefore, vital where we place our hope. Hoping even in good things will result in a burn out and depression if it is not in the ultimate cause. Elijah was a mighty man of faith. He defeated 400 Baal prophets in a […]
The gospel is not like information we need to hear once, but like a beautiful song we need to hear over and over. I realized this as I was driving to work, listening to Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones, an old Scottish preacher. The recording was so old that it was originally recorded on paper tape […]