Try this exercise: Close your eyes. Imagine God. What do you see on the screen in your mind as you are honest with yourself about who you think God is? Do you see a Being who harshly judges, throws lightning bolts, condemns people to their own desires, or exerts wrath upon everyone who won’t agree […]
Announcing Lent Devotionals for 2024, “Seeing His Love with New Eyes” which will dig deep into a personal relationship of love with our Savior Jesus Christ. To know His love that frees us from shame. To experience His grace that flows from His love. Lent begins on February 14th and continues to Holy Saturday, March […]
Just Trust.
One of the disadvantages of living in an information age is attempting to discern the truth in a forest of ideas, facts, and popular sentiment. The Bible will never steer you wrong. In His prayer from John 17:17-18, Jesus reminded His disciples then and His disciples today, “Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is […]
What’s the first priority you seek every morning? For those of us with the world at our fingertips through smart phones we use as alarm clocks, it’s way too easy to have a first priority be something other than God. Maybe a priority for the New Year could be to seek the Lord, call on […]
As we close out this devotional series for Advent “From the Jews, For the World” we look at a marvelous mystery: that Jesus would leave behind all of heaven with the riches and relationship He knew before the “Word became flesh”, and that He would choose to make His dwelling among us for three decades […]
The world is in turmoil on this Christmas Eve, but there is hope. For the Christian there is hope…from the Jews for the world. “In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven […]
It’s ironic how people who are steadfast in their unbelief project themselves onto Jesus and want to see Jesus as some sort of socialist hippie who is tolerant of every kind of evil and loves sinners so much that He gives their sin a pass. Nothing could be further from the truth. They take the […]
Had the situation been “For the Jew for they alone are the Chosen Few” there would be reason to question… “Why them?” God, we could argue, would have His own reasons for how He does things, but from a human point of view, it makes for a lot of sadness at something none of us […]
