Be encouraged that when Jesus appeared to people after He was raised from the dead, the people He went to were the people who’s lives would influence the next two millennia. Please notice that they were not Herod, or Pilate, or Caiaphas, but people like you and like me. The people who make a difference in the earth are the […]
Take the land. Fear not. Caleb said, “We must go up and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!” (Numbers 13:30) The ten spies with evil reports said, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we are!… The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and […]
Every meal is a good excuse to celebrate the bread and the cup of the Life and death of Jesus. If you are a believer you are qualified to serve it. If you are able to drink and eat you are qualified to receive it. He invited Judas to His table. I became a believer one day when Jesus invited […]
There is no teaching by Jesus on faith when He made that statement, usually. Just information that their faith had done the work. “Lord, increase our faith” was given instruction as a response, but our cultural instruction on faith is so different from Jesus’ instruction that we can’t see how what He said connects to faith. Please read Luke 17:5-10. […]
The spirit world existed before the created world from which our bodies are made. In the beginning was God. Everything that has been created was made by Him and through Him and for Him. The physical world is simply superimposed on the spirit world. The study of physics is an attempt to discover the laws that govern the physical world. […]
Lazarus, after his trip through Hades, gave Jesus a feast in his home in Bethany (John 12). His sister Mary took a pound of nard, an expensive fragrant oil, and anointed Jesus with it. Judas said that he thought that was too much money to waste on Jesus. Well, he didn’t say that exactly, but that is what he said […]
Spur one another on to love and good deeds (Philippians 2:5) Recently one person asked me why I wasn’t trying to influence another person, regarding their faith to be delivered from a problem they were facing. I replied that we cannot hold a person in the place of faith where we think they should stand. We can help them find […]
When we are in conversations with others, our answers to their comments are usually on our minds, and frequently on our tongues, before their comments are finished being stated. Agape is required to be able to listen to what other people are saying. Patience is required. Even when we do listen, we are prone to answer with, “Yes, but…” Suppose […]
Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane that His Father’s will would be done in His life. His flesh wanted to lead Him to ask for deliverance from the cross. His spirit wanted to lead Him to pay for our sin. Asking Yahweh to deliver us from troubles is rarely as effective as asking Him what He is doing, and […]
What day are you longing for? The last couple of centuries have found most of the church crying for the “sweet by and by.” Most of her hymns have been prayers that her God would snatch her out of the earth and let her lounge in heaven forever. Perhaps the most pitiful of such whinings was “Precious Lord:” “Precious Lord, Take […]