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"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." (1 John 4:7,8) One year when I was in college my friend and I decided to skip the crowds going to the...
I had just finished shoveling out my driveway, my porches, and a walk path over to my daughter’s house after yet another heavy snow. It was the fourth time I had shoveled out in a week and I was wondering if my sore back was going to make it through the Winter. During...
"you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." (James 4:14) Morning dawned foggy and misty. It took us by surprise, as we had expected bright, sunny and clear as it had been every...
Today, we come to the concluding part of our series titled "First day of the First month." Let's focus on the final "C"... Crown "...in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth:" (Genesis 8:13) Welcome once again to one...
"It is more blessed to give than to receive." (Acts 20:35) When I was a boy I enjoyed getting gifts. I remember the night before my birthday I would lie awake all night wondering what I would get. In the morning I would be running all over the house almost bursting...
Last week, in Building Solomon's Temple, Part 1, we discovered the importance of the preparations we do for building our heart-temples. But just how can we prepare to build something as abstract as a "heart-temple?" We look to David and Solomon for the answers: "With...
All through the first three chapters of the Scriptures, worship is not mentioned. The world provided for the perfect family relationship where Adam and Eve carried out the duties of garden management, enjoyed the fruits of the garden and also enjoyed all the animal...
In the second part of our series on learning lessons on the importance of obedience during this Christmas season, let's focus initially on what disobedience actually stands for in order we better grasp the paramount significance of obedience. For better understanding,...
In the second part of the Series on the theme of Christ's and the Christian's suffering, today let's focus on two related subjects... Responsibility Even as the Saviour suffered, what is the Christian's responsibility towards suffering (it would be only physical and...
The grass is always greener—on the other side of the fence! Many of us have heard and used this little idiom, and many languages other than English have similar expressions. What we don't realize, however, as this common adage slips from our lips, is that it sums up...
Last week, in The Heavenly Temple, Part 6, we saw that our first and foremost reason for approaching God's throne should not be our list of petitions. Rather, the most important reason needs to be to give God glory! When we think of the throne of God, the thing that...
"Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift." (2 Cor 9:15) So far in this series, we've been looking at Isaiah 9:6,7 in order to understand the depth and breadth of what Paul describes as Jesus' "Indescribable Gift," the gift we celebrate this Christmas. We have seen...
Last Tuesday, in "Lessons From Jesus' Trial," Part 3, we learned from the courts of Pilate that we are to openly live by Truth in such a way that others can know Truth by simply observing us. We also learned that we are to trust Jesus' words that those whose ears are...