Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. We have this hope—like a […]
The “good news” of salvation is not that we have discovered that we are sinners rightly damned to hell. It is that we can be born from above with the nature of Yahweh by His Spirit, and have Life. When Jesus started preaching, His message could be paraphrased, “Change your mindsets – My Kingdom is now within your reach. Come […]
Jesus paid the price of all of humanity’s sin-debt. That price was not the only cost of human redemption, though. Just as Jesus was sent, He has sent us – to accomplish redemption. Not to pay the price of redemption to peoples’ relationships with Yahweh, but to pay the cost of relationship with each other that helps to prove His […]
How is your work ethic? Do you do things that need to be done when they are outside everyone’s list of assignments, including your own? Do you check your work for excellence before publishing or submitting it? Do you honor your superiors, even the ones who are not nice or not honest? If you get all of that part of […]
Some people, even believers, have found no greater purpose in life than avoiding discomfort and death. If you are not yet able to declare the knowledge of your God-desired purpose, ask Him to reveal it and set you at accomplishing it. He chose you. He has set you in place on purpose, with purpose (John 15:16; 1 Corinthians 12:18). Press […]
In the 30’s and 40’s and 50’s, so many inventions were becoming possible because of advances in technologies of both materials and manufacturing that some people started to believe that they could design a “perpetual motion machine.” That concept meant that once you started the engine, whatever it was, that it would not only do some sort of work, but […]
The descendants of Israel who had become enslaved by Egypt were liberated from that slavery very dramatically. When they faced the difficulties and responsibilities of owning their lives, they preferred slavery, though (Acts 7:39)! In John chapter 8 (read verses 30-47) Jesus was talking to some Jews who believed Him. He told them that if they continued in His word, […]
And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none. He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’ […]
Dr. Henry Cushing, a surgeon, is quoted as having advised, “Don’t operate on the stomach of a man for stomach ulcer – operate on his head.” His assessment was based on the thought that stomach ulcers are caused by anger and fear, not a weakness in the stomach.
This is what Yahweh says: Cursed is the one who trusts in adam, who makes human flesh his strength and turns his heart from Yahweh. He will be like a juniper in the Arabah; he cannot see when good comes but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one lives. Blessed is the […]