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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paul, encouraging the saints in Corinth to be generous, included this in his advice to them regarding their generosity: Now the One who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness, as you are enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God […]
While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the high priest’s servants came. When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus.”But he denied it: “I don’t know or understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went out to the entryway, and a rooster crowed.When the servant saw him […]
By whom are you troubled? Someone who is hateful, or deceitful, or who is a thief? If it is January, there are no pecans visible on the limbs of a pecan tree. Not even a leaf. The pecans are there, though – already in the tree. If it continues to be January, the nuts will remain in the tree, and […]
When Paul wrote the letter to the congregations at Corinth that we call 1 Corinthians, he was not instructing them about how to have nice marriages when he got to what we marked Chapter 13. The last phrase in Chapter 12 and the first phrase in Chapter 14 make it clear that he was instructing them regarding being, together, married […]