We are entering one of the most dangerous times of the year for families. Christmas is approaching and unfortunately the reason for the season gets lost as retail marketing ramps up. Christmas is an important holiday, it is the day ...
As Christ is preparing to die on the cross he leaves his disciples with a number of encouraging statements. These are recorded in John chapter 14. One of them is, “…the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send ...
John 3:16 illiterates in a nutshell the Father’s God’s profound love for the world and his Son’s willingness to sacrifice himself for it: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son so that whoever ...
But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again. Jeremiah 34:11 In the thirty-fourth chapter of Jeremiah we find the tragic story of how many among the Israelites went back on ...
“All this I have told you so that you will not fall away.” John 16:1 Here Jesus is referring to his previous teaching of the disciples, specifically to his teaching in the previous chapter in which he prepares his disciples ...
The list of celebrities that take their life by their own hand seems only to increase. Today we wonder in shock why one of the most memorable singers of our generation would take their own life in the midst of ...
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place ...
Sunday afternoon I found myself under duress from a bad stomach bug, it meant I would be spending the next day off work. It then turned into two days, as the bug was pretty bad. It was as good a ...
During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It's a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus ...
The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through ...