I am a beggar at your door the steps rising before my hesitant feet I can hear the sounds within your kingdom drawing me, despite my lack of confidence. My feet unclean, I could wipe them more than once and they would still not shed the grime. So I turn and sit at the...
"The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23b NIV). The young person sat before me and said, "I stole watermelons only once." I don't recall even nodding before the rest of the story came out: "A group of us young people went in a car to...
Sometimes in our Christian sojourn, can we (God's children) really be far away from the very One we owe our physical and spiritual lives to? Even though we may be mistakenly thinking we are close to him? Are there Biblical examples of some souls who were "so close,...
It was the time of the Passover and Jesus was praying in the garden. A detachment of Roman soldiers, along with a few Temple guards provided by the chief priests and Pharisees, all carrying lamps, weapons and torches and led by none other than Jesus' own disciple,...
Today, in the concluding part of the series on how our Heavenly Father's perspective varies with respective to that of finite intelligent men of the World, we come to two more related subjects... Lay-up... "One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds...
The Lion of Judah. We first hear this term in the book of Revelation, chapter 5. The setting is Heaven, and John, the author of the book (See Revelation 1:1-2), has just finished describing 24 elders and four beasts surrounding the throne of God when his attention is...
Continuing to focus on "so near, yet so far" cases in the Scripture today, we come to the second part of the series...wherein we shall train our spotlight on two such cases... Tent... "And the people of Israel also wept again and said, 'Oh that we had meat to eat! We...
Today in the concluding part of our series on "so near, yet so far" Biblical examples, we shall focus on two subjects under two separate sub-headings... Team... "Then Jesus replied, 'Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!'" (John 6:70) Now Judas...
Last Tuesday, in the Lion of Judah, Part 1, we saw that Jesus is the "Lion of Judah", the One who has disarmed the devil and defeated him forever. As Jesus triumphs over the lies and deceptions, we see Him prevailing over His prey and returning in triumph, thus...
"As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set his face toward Jerusalem" (Luke 9: 51: NIV). Early in his ministry, Jesus revealed who he was: John, the writer of the fourth gospel, shows us Jesus healing a man on the Sabbath Day, and...