This morning I woke up at 4 a.m. It wasn’t because I had a bad dream or a distant train whistle stirred me to consciousness. I simply opened my eyes and waited for my brain to catch up! Are you aware that you can’t solve all the world’s problems in the middle of the...
"But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered." (Jonah 4:7 NIV)Today, I'd like to spotlight those little annoyances which subtly chew holes in our orderly lives. Perhaps, it's yet another telemarketer or an insensitive...
Leading up to and during the Christmas season, we read how the angel of the Lord told Zacharias that he and Elizabeth were to have a child who would be the forerunner of the coming Messiah, how the angel told Mary that she would be the mother of God's Son, and how the...
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”(Isaiah 1:18 KJV). Dearly beloved and friends,please go straight to your mirror and...
"Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, 'I have no pleasure in them.'" (Ecclesiastes 12:1 NKJV)Well, isn't that verse the truth! During the last eighteen months, I have been through a...
"I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33 ESV)"We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but...
"For nothing is impossible with God." (Luke 1:37 ESV) "But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'” (Matthew 19:26 ESV) I have had areas of my life where it felt impossible to go on. I felt the weight of the...
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, 'Your God reigns!'” (Isaiah 52:7 NKJ) "For nothing will be impossible with God." (Luke 1:37...
"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, 'Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him.' When Herod the...
"And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. And the Child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon Him. ... And Jesus increased in wisdom and in...