When you are asked the question: Who are you? – how would you respond? We live in a world where people’s identities-our own identities are often malformed, skewed. People often take their professions and avocations as who they are, when these things are actually just what they do. If identity is related to profession, finances, what is […]
Month: April 2015
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” – John 14:6 NIV When I first heard this in 1985 I was up late, drunk, watching a tele-evangelist on TBN. How exclusionary! I muttered to myself,,,I was enraged, my thoughts were somewhere
“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.” – Ephesians 4:26-27 Perhaps your life hasn’t worked out the way you had planned…behind you may be the wreckage of broken dreams and dashed hopes. Expectations may have been
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28 There is probably no more recognizable image of the horrors of Hitler’s meticulous plan to exterminate the Jewish people- my people, dubbed the “Final Solution”, than the
“What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear to these very day…” Romans 11:7-8a For the first
Today was Resurrection Day; as the congregation worshipped, proclaiming the fact that He-Jesus-is Risen, the thought dropped suddenly into me straight from Holy Spirit about the stone. Not just any stone but THE STONE–the one that had stood sealing shut the entrance to the Garden Tomb after Yeshua was laid there… Scripture tells us in
“See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.. Isaiah 49:16 “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who
“Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so…” A famous theologian, towards the end of his life, was asked by students, “What is the most important thing you have learned in your walk as a believer?” His simple and profound answer is what was stated above: JESUS LOVES ME. Of all