Suffering
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In last week’s post, we heard Jesus expressing His heart’s longing for the church to return to Him, its “first love”. He told the Ephesian church (and this certainly can and does apply to believers in our day as well) of His concern for their downward trajectory. He pinpointed the problem as their being caught
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NOTE: This week we are posting three special teachings on Jesus’ sacrificial death and glorious resurrection. Today’s is the first. The other two are: Saturday – A Perfect Salvation Resurrection Day –The Rock That Rolled May He bless you and your loved ones as you celebrate the unconditional, unfailing love of His resurrection life. ************************************************* I
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Let’s do some soul-searching this week. Let’s ask ourselves, “Am I pleasing to the Father? Does He delight in me?” The answers to those questions require our being totally honest with ourselves. Many of us might answer, “No, I’ve made too many mistakes. I have too many shortcomings. I’ve failed God too many times. He’s
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Today, we’re going to broaden the focus of our series on healing to include both our physical and our spiritual salvation. Sin and sickness have always been intertwined, since both are the result of the fall. All of mankind’s ills: sin, sickness, poverty, and death began at the fall, when Adam and Eve were separated
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More than 700 years before Jesus was born,the prophet Isaiah, inspired and enabled by Holy Spirit saw His substitutionary suffering and death, and recorded it for us. Isaiah, seeing by the Spirit, actually understood more of what was to take place at Calvary, than Jesus’ followers, who were physically present at the cross. Even though
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Recently, Grace and I learned that one of our dear friends in the Philippines is in the midst of a serious battle for her health. Of course, she is in our prayers, but we wanted to do even more than pray. We wanted to surround our friend with love and faith. And we wanted to
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People use the term “god-forsaken” to describe some place or thing that is “miserable, wretched, desolate, and hopeless.” The phrase infers “abandonment” by God. But can any person, place or thing really be forsaken by God, since He is omnipresent? Amazingly, Jesus, the Word of God, the Author of Life, testified that He had been
His Heart, My Home 