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Today, in the concluding part of our series on the stupendous miracle of our Lord, walking on water , let's look at the "third dimension" of this stunning episode. Power When the Master came walking on walker, did Peter also replicate this amazing act? YES, AS LONG AS...
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps 118:24 NKJV) "Do you believe that this is the end of days?" That was the question a friend wrote me a few days ago. It is a question that I have gotten a lot of times over the years. With all...
In the concluding part of my Easter message on the "Identification theme", today I would like to focus on the following "Identity topics": 1. Identifying ourselves with the Messiah's cause: It is one thing to identify the Messiah's cause and quite another to identify...
The white Cockatoo is an Australian parrot and it lives in the Eastern mountains in huge flocks. By following the Cockatoos, people found sights and views not known before and small communities were established in those isolated places. In time, a train line was built...
"How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered. I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!" (Psalm 139:17,18) T-shirt City. That’s the corner of the closet where our T-shirts live, quite a few in fact. Some of the citizens of...
"Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me." (Psalm 50:15) In the Florida Keys there’s a landmark bait and tackle shop named Capt. Hook’s. It’s crammed full of fishing items and eclectic paraphernalia. Small signs dot the walls,...
Late in the day, someone gave me an urgent message to deliver to my neighbour. He had called on my neighbour but nobody answered the door so he wrote the message down, put it in an envelope, and begged me to deliver it for him. He said it was really urgent. Next...
An analemma is the result of a year-long series of photographs of the sun, taken one week apart at exactly the same minute every week. A certain day and a specific time must be set aside each week for one whole year to take each shot and the process cannot be hurried...
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. "For where your...
I did something wrong first thing this morning. I knew it was wrong, but it wasn't a huge deal, it was a sin I often fall into, and it really only implicated me. Or at least, this was my reasoning ... However as I approached my "prayer closet" for my morning devotion,...
The planet, Venus, is notorious for troubling the peace. It looks like a large, bright object and when it is low in the evening sky, it is often distorted by earth’s atmospheric disturbances. It seems to travel or to dance or to change colour and people are sometimes...
"In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." (John 1:4-5, NKJV) When you go through this life with your eyes open, you soon see that everything in it is a miracle. You realize that...
"Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb." (Revelation 22:1) One of the earliest sunday school stories I recall hearing is the one about David and Goliath. David, shepherd boy, who...