"And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." (Luke 2:7) When we look at the many different nativity scenes which we see this time of the year, our thoughts are...
“Thanks be to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Rom. 7:25). They were everywhere. In the cereal boxes, crawling over the countertops, drowning in the sinks, buried in the sofas, falling from the ceiling . . . It seemed like the more I squished, the...
"Let us start rebuilding." (Neh 2:18) Do you know of anything that needs to be rebuilt? Nehemiah did. The walls around Jerusalem! And he felt this so keenly about this, that He set out to do something about it! First he spent time in...
This is the 8th and final lesson from the short series focusing on what Israel's earliest leaders, the judges, have to teach us. Today's leadership lesson is the second from one of Israel's more well-known judges, Samson . . .If anything could be said of Samson's...
It was the very next day, and it was the coldest day so far this year, with temperatures, considering the wind chill, dipping down as low as –27º C. “You’re crazy!” I muttered to myself as I turned off the main road to run into the cemetery. “You should have learned...
According to the Book of Hebrews Jesus is all of the following: Heb. 1:2: Heir of all things Heb. 1:3: The Creator God's chief spokesperson of the New Covenant The brightness of God's glory Heb. 1:4: The express image of God The upholder of all things Our sin purger...
“For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness . . .” (Isa 61:10) I should be sick. The boat is heaving and pitching; people are running down the halls, hands covering their mouths, searching for motion sickness bags....
There were NO footprints in the snow today. And little wonder! The previous morning we had received 4 inches of the wettest, slushiest snow possible, then it warmed up to a few degrees above freezing, and the precipitation turned to rain. After raining for several...
There are MANY lessons that we can learn from the prophet Elisha. This is the first of a series focusing on the life of this great prophet. "Then Elijah said to him, 'Stay here, Elisha; the LORD has sent me to Jericho.' And he replied, 'As surely as the LORD lives...
There are MANY lessons that we can learn from the prophet Elisha. This is the second of series focusing on the life of this great prophet. "As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of...