There is one notable exception in yesterday’s list: Enoch. His name appears 13 times in Scripture, including the New Testament. “By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as […]
Do you ever feel like a nobody in God’s plan for this earth? Like nothing you do really matters or is seen by God? When Jesus was born to an uncelebrated Jewish virgin and a Jewish carpenter who adopted Jesus as his own, it was a bunch of nobodies in the world’s view. Three people […]
Continuing our look at the remnant visible in Jesus’ lineage, we can see that remnant not only as Adam’s true image in Seth, but Seth’s remnant of faith heralded with the birth of Enosh. Genesis 4:26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the […]
If you look at Jesus’ genealogies recorded in Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:21-38, you’ll notice Matthew looks forward through the lens of Judaism beginning with Abraham. Luke’s record looks backward through the family of man, all the way to Creation. Both display a remnant which is the theme for our 2022 Advent Devotionals. Let’s look […]
Can you imagine life if Christians were to look different after they commit their lives to following Christ? We could spot believers a mile away and focus our evangelism on those who still looked fallen…lost…or hopeless. But that’s not how it works. The Spirit is invisible, but His actions are visible. As Jesus says in […]
Seriously? During Advent? Yes. With Kanye West and Kyrie Irving in the news recently over accusations of antisemitism, God laid it on my heart to address Jesus’ lineage and patterns of a remnant I see in the Old Testament, with the threads of a remnant winding all the way to Revelation. I see a time […]
No amount of good works we do can provide us with a new nature. This was a hard lesson for me. There was pride involved in doing all the good I could to distract from the sinner Scripture says that I am. I didn’t feel like a big sinner. I wasn’t an axe murderer, terrorist, […]
