One person asks another person for something on December 15th. The second person replies, “Well, I wouldn’t normally, but since it’s Christmas…” We’re nice to people on their birthdays when we wouldn’t give them anything on another day. Especially our birthday. Social pressure requires generosity at times and seasons, and liberates us from any responsibility at other times. In the […]
The deepest, most powerful physical contact combines a manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit that is agape and the fruit of the Spirit that is faith. When the apostles laid their hands on the 7 young Hellenistic believers who were going to be assigned the responsibility of taking care of daily provision to Hellenistic widows, they were empowered by […]
Eu – Logos: good word. Eulogy is how its spelled if its at your funeral. Some people get to pick the epitaph that goes on their grave stone. Others have one written for them or about them. Some wouldn’t be what the deceased would have hoped for. Nobody knows you better than Yahweh. If He was going to write something […]
14 The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks, 15 till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest. 16 The Lord’s justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness […]
Yahweh told Abraham that he would have a son. Many years went by. Being very smart, Sarah knew that it was not possible for her to have the promised son, so she thought up a way that it was possible – Hagar could bear the son, and Sarah could raise it. When the promise was finally realized, and Sarah herself bore […]
Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the One who died, but even more, has been raised; He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us. Romans 8:34 In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, […]
Romans 7:5,6 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in […]
PSALM 146 Hallelujah! Praise Yahweh, my soul! I mean to praise Yahweh all my life, I mean to sing to my God as long as I live. Do not put your trust in men in power, or in any mortal man – he cannot save, he yields his breath and goes back to the earth he came from, and on […]
Matthew 11:7-14 7 As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 8 But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. 9 But what did […]
John 7:14-19 14 When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach. 15 Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, since He hasn’t been trained?” 16 Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me. 17 If anyone wants […]