“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. “ Matthew 13:45, 46 “The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was […]
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Unconditional How would it feel to have the Lord Himself call us liars? Would that not shock us, instantly bring a person to their knees? It’s hard to imagine a Father who loves us, who operates in grace and mercy, getting face to face and telling us this, but we are told plainly here, without
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the
“In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and
A Matter of Degrees We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; Isaiah 53:6a“No one who takes their hands off the plow is fit for the Kingdom” Luke 9:62 A few years years ago in the throes of a midlife crisis I sat in my home
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but