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"I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." (Luke 22:15 NIV) "In the same way after supper He took the cup saying 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this whenever you drink it, in remembrance of Me. For whenever you eat...
After the return of the spies from Jericho, the Israeli camp moved to the Jordan River. Their destination? The Land of Canaan! Only one problem: It was harvest time. We know this, because Rahab, who protected the spies at Jericho and helped them to escape, hid them...
"The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning...." (Lamentations 3:22-23) Reading the Book of Luke my attention was drawn to the account where Jesus met the widow who had just lost...
How do we face a challenge? But firstly, what is a challenge? The dictionary defines it originally as an accusation or a reproach. Apparently if you were accused or reproached you answered by drawing battle lines so we have come to regard a challenge as the command to...
"Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine." (Prov 3:9-10 NIV) There are many phrases associated with the word “blank”, such a drawing a blank,...
Growing in our garden is a huge – I mean huge – Cecile Brunner rose bush. If you remember your rose catalogue, you will remember that Cecile Brunner is a delicate, pink miniature rose. It is sometimes known as the button-hole rose. Miniature blossom it may be but the...
"Put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?" (Psalm 56:8 KJV) "Do you see this woman? I came into your house, you did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair." (Luke 7:44 NIV) Can you imagine...
"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men,...
"Faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (I Corinthians 13:13) The time came for my mother in law to do a major sorting out. 10 years ago she went through this process when she became a widow and moved out of her large Florida home to an apartment...
Dust storms settled across the landscape and dust flowed through every breath we took. It settled on the roof of the house, on the tiles on the veranda, and on the leaves of the plants and trees. It was a hot and wearing time and we could do nothing to change it. Dust...
Six silk roses, a gift from somewhere in the past, as perfect as a pair of hands could make them, even to the simulated thorns down the stems. A tiny gold label, glued to one green leaf on each stem, said "Made in Hong Kong" so the creator of my six silk roses was...
"I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." (Psalm 4:8) A large, lone pelican was perched on his post, seeming to appropriate the sentinel role overseeing and guarding his territory. Earlier that week two persons I know...
"Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but...