I’ve been accused (on more than one occasion) of being a dispenser of “hopium.” Perhaps it’s the plight of people with natural encouragement in their veins and fire-tested hope in their hearts. In the face of God’s discipline that some of us have experienced, a lesson learned is that there’s still hope. In the face […]
You don’t need a refuge when everything is peaceful and going swimmingly. It’s when times get tough that a refuge is sought as shelter from the storm. “The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him, but with an overwhelming flood He will make an end […]
A theologian I know lamented that “the church is functionally Marcionite…it treats the bulk of the Old Testament as non-canonical.” In other words, there is a prevailing attitude in the modern church that Jesus is the enduring “good God” of the New Testament. Oh, at one time there was a wrathful angry God of the […]
True Confession: I am a morning person. I’m typically up well before dawn. I situate myself with my Bible, my computer, and my coffee so I can watch the sun rise (which in Florida typically includes seeing the sun). Watching the sunrise each day sets my heart to right as the Bible tells me, “This […]
Born this day in Bethlehem is the Christ, the One who was born King, to take by Divine right the throne of His father David and to rule the remnant for eternity. “Who is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We have seen His star in the east and have come […]
Today, we enter an interesting point of divergence in our look at the remnant through Jesus’ genealogy. Yet we see God maintaining the remnant of faith and fulfilling Scripture. After King David in the genealogy, there are no similar names in Luke’s gospel to Matthew’s genealogy until we get to Shealtiel, the father of the […]
A remnant, by definition, is a small amount out of what was many. In the Bible, it often refers to what is left over after destruction. The remnant of the Bible is a people of faith, purified faith, having been tested and tried, and proven faithful in adversity. When God allowed adversity upon the remnant, […]
Isaiah 11:10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious. 11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from […]
Let’s return to the idea of a family tree as we continue our look at Jesus’ lineage and the remnant of faith. Each person in the remnant is rooted back in a family tree, but not all on the family tree are part of the remnant. That’s an important point of the genealogy in Luke: […]
Continuing our look at Jesus’ genealogy and the remnant being increasingly one of faith while becoming more inclusive we read, Luke 3:32 “the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon”. Again, Matthew’s gospel fills us in on some points worth noting. Matthew 1:5 […]
