For those of you signed up for devotionals, there will be one more sermon from Plymouth Church after this one on Acts 28:1-10 titled, “Setting the Record Straight” even while the daily devotionals continue for Advent. * * * Misunderstanding might be our national pastime. We misunderstand each other, our circumstances, our identities, affiliations, and […]
In Acts 28:1-10, Paul displays the spiritual value of practical ministry and gives us an opportunity for setting the record straight.
At one point in my life, I worked in the garden department at Home Depot. It was the only work I could get. I would have liked to believe that I might have been hired at some church for a ministry job, after all I was seminary trained and was told in my exit interview […]
Aladdin’s Genie: What would you wish of me? The ever impressive… the long-contained… the often imitated, but never… duplicated… (duplicated… duplicated… duplicated…) Genie of the Lamp! Right here, direct from the lamp. Right here for your very much wish-fulfillment. Thank you. Jesus is not a genie from a lamp or a genie that was put […]
Captain Hook: Fly! Fly! Fly! You coward! Peter Pan: Coward! Me? Captain Hook: Ha-ha-ha! You wouldn’t dare fight old Hook man-to-man. You’d fly away like a cowardly sparrow! Peter Pan: Nobody calls Pan a coward and lives! I’ll fight you man-to-man, with one hand behind my back. Captain Hook: You mean you won’t fly? Wendy: […]
The Incarnation was a very costly move. It was costly for the Father. It was costly for the Son. And yet, God did it. Why? The Bible tells us that the Incarnation is the perfect expression and revelation of Divine Love. And strange as it seems, love and sacrifice are intimately connected. John 3:16 “For […]
The Incarnation was God’s answer and man’s only hope. If anything created could have saved us, then God was a fool to do it Himself. Think about that statement for a moment. Now think about all the things we think are going to save us: exercise diet health care concern for the planet jobs and […]
Q: Why did Jesus come as a man and not some other sort of creature? A: Because only man bears God’s Image. Jesus, as a man, was not only an Image bearer of God, He is the Image of God. Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. […]
Strange, isn’t it, to think that Jesus still has a body? Once incarnated, He would have a body forever. No return to being some sort of spirit minus a body like the Father or the Holy Spirit. No return to being uncontained, as it were. My first thought as I was pondering this was a […]
We cannot get into the mind of God to know why He does things, but the good news is He tells us all that we need to know. The Incarnation is mysterious. He doesn’t expect us to know how He did it. How can God simultaneously be the Son of God and the Son of […]
