We all have something or someone in our lives we are closest to. We see life from a perspective relative to what or who that is. Jesus, God’s Son, is meant to be the closest Star in our lives. Is He who you are drawing near?
Between the Suppers?
The Lord’s Supper: How can we meaningfully observe such a memorial and mistreat someone over a mistake in a lunch order?
Hanging Yourself on Your Own Gallows
We injure ourselves when we wish hurt upon others. Hating someone gives them control of your life.
The Lord’s Supper Teaches
What are you proclaiming in your attitude with which you take the bread? What are you teaching others by the gravity with which you drink the cup?
Absolute Power
Any philosophy that rejects God as the source of how to measure what is right is reliant upon consensus or control to rule.
No More Apostles
God only designated a specific group of men as apostles of Jesus Christ. These were the ones appointed by Him in Matthew 10:1-4 (See also Luke 6:12-16). Matthias was selected to replace Judas in Acts 1:26, and Paul was selected later, an apostle born out of due season (1 Cor 15:8-9).
Things He Did So We Can
He was homeless, a servant, and poor, so that we can have more.
What if Your Prayer is Answered in the Next Verse?
I feel the deep, aching weight of betrayal when I think of Absalom’s attempt to overtake the kingdom of his father, David. How must it have felt to be forced to flee the city he ruled because the plot his child had been working for years came to fruition? Did he forsake God? No. Did […]
Job’s Wish Granted
It has been argued that Job could have little to no understanding of God’s plan of bringing Jesus into the world to redeem mankind from our sins. Whatever knowledge Job may or may not have had, it is clear that it did not prevent his understanding and desire for some kind of a redeemer.
See How They Walk!
“A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself;The simple pass on and are punished.” (Prov 27:12; Unless otherwise stated: Scripture is taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Used by permission. All rights reserved) The prudence in this proverb is a characteristic a person practices in thought and displays […]