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  Today is Passover. Last night was Good Friday and the start of Passover. Last night Jews and Christians around the world were honoring YHWH who saves!   This morning, I opened my Bible and my eyes fell on Ezekiel 37:13 :   “Then you shall know that I AM the LORD when I have [...]

Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.  Amen. (Ephesians 3:20) The ladies’ retreat had been refreshing. We were filled to overflowing with heavenly manna, but [...]

“They don’t know how to cry,” I heard the Spirit whisper. Some of God’s people don’t know how to cry. Maybe that was one of the problems with the Laodicean church. (Revelation 3:14-22) Maybe a preoccupation with material wealth had quenched the Spirit which would have moved them to tears had they recognized their spiritually [...]

I was just thinking about sin the other day while reading Isaiah. I started to think… we take sin way too lightly! We take advantage of God’s grace perhaps without even recognizing it! I was reading Isaiah 65:2-5 and noticed how deliberately God’s chosen people sinned against Him. Go read it. And read the whole book [...]

“I come to the garden alone….” This hallowed hymn always strums an emotional chord deep within me. It beckons me to that place of sweet delight with the Lover of my soul. “And the joy we share, as we tarry there, none other can ever know.” It is there that we enter the Holy of [...]

INTRODUCTION When I was a baby Christian, a Bible teacher was inquiring which books we would like to study. I chimed in, “Isaiah!” His comment, however, was in the negative, saying it was a lot of dry history and judgments. That was certainly not my take on the prophet. Even as young in the Lord as I [...]

“The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”   Jeremiah 31:40 Some people think that all the Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled already.   Certainly, enough of them have been that we can be assured that God’s word is true.  But there remain numerous prophecies to be ultimately fulfilled regarding Jerusalem, the City of Peace.   [...]

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory , glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth . We’ve all been there. Someone asks our opinion and we want to be truthful but we also don’t want to offend. The scenario is cliché on [...]

How our Father loves to bestow good gifts on His children!  (Matt 7:11; James 1:17)  Psalm 37 is a psalm of inheritance.  Notice how many times the word is mentioned.  This Psalm ties in with one of my other favorite Scriptures that promises us that for His chosen, God “works all things together for our [...]

My precious granddaughter’s name is “Hephzibah”. It’s a beautiful name but it isn’t simple and it isn’t convenient. When people first hear it, they want it re-pronounced, spelt, and explained. But the meaning is lovely: “my delight is in her”. Would every child know that their parents delight in them! God placed this name in [...]

I have to admit that often I skim over the salutations of the epistles to get to the “meat”.  But what precious nuggets are even in the greetings!  What an appetizer we have here! Romans 1:1-4 A major doctrine of authentic* Christianity is that Jesus Christ was both human and divine, both man and God.  [...]

Some who revere the Beatles might think it sacrilegious to change their lyrics, lovely as they are. But their  melancholic lyrics  don’t resonate truth for me.  There is no “shadow hanging over me.”  Since Christ changed me and my “yesterday”and  since He is now “working all things together for my good”  (Romans 8:28) and  turning [...]

Christ “speaks and list’ning to His voice, new life the dead receive”!  “Hear Him, ye deaf!” Who are these “dead” that Charles Wesley refers to in his hymn “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”?  These dead are sinners! The concept of death is separation.   God is life.  Separate from Him, you are spiritually dead.  [...]

We confess this frequently at my church:  “Christ has died. Christ is risen.  Christ will come again.”   These are foundational Christian beliefs.  Do you believe Christ is coming again?   Many,many  Scriptures reference the Lord’s Coming.  Some of these just reference the “Day” or the “Revelation” but are included to show how foundational the Second Coming [...]

“….but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”  Romans 8:15 How different is true Christianity from man-made religions!  We have a heavenly Father! I’m reading Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a best-selling novel for about a century.  The story is set in Rome about AD 54-68.   Christianity [...]