Some people have called Sunday mornings in America its most segregated hour, upset at the familial and cultural separation of the body of Christ. Each congregation has a limited manifestation of the body – black congregations, Hispanic congregations, poor, rich, European, Asian, et cetera… Further separation is based on favorite teachings, heresies and arguments. Armenians, Calvinists, Lutherans, Romans, Greeks, Anglicans, […]
Before cameras became digital computers with eyes, they were one part of a very different scientific process. The shutter blinked open and shut quickly. The film was exposed to light. In darkness and harsh chemicals, the film was processed. Then the photo sensitive paper was exposed to the image on the film. The image on the film was transferred to […]
Pray much blessing into the earth. Not just for the nice people. Your prayer may even be for someone who doesn’t seem to deserve anything but judgement and harsh punishment. One of your prayers today may change the eternities of a large group of people. You have benefited from the prayers of Ananias of Damascus over Saul of Tarsus, for […]
Does any of you who has a complaint against someone dare go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels—not to […]
This is how a story should have gone: I was walking this afternoon for exercise. A vehicle approached me from behind, and a fool threw her large paper cup from a fast food restaurant that was filled with Pepsi at me and it scared me as it exploded on my left shoulder and drenched my left ear and neck and […]
Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom, because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. Brothers, consider your calling: not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. Instead, God has chosen the world’s foolish […]
Information about the Kingdom of Heaven is not just the highest philosophy – it is good news! It is not just truth – it is the introduction of One Who is The Truth. It is not just correction – it is the power to live in fellowship with the Source of Life and righteousness, and to be influenced by Him […]
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven.(Matthew 16:19 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. As soon as He got […]
The only time the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence is when Jesus instructs you to go there. The Lord is my shepherd;there is nothing I lack.He lets me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters.He renews my life;He leads me along the right pathsfor His name’s sake.(Psalm 23:1-3 Holman Christian Standard […]
Be encouraged that Jesus your King will never stop increasing the power and reach and influence of His government. He will continually gain more and more influence over your mind and will and circumstance and purpose. Yahweh Sabaoth is zealous to see to it. Of the increase of His government and peaceThere will be no end,Upon the throne of David […]