We were created to live forever Yet, God has made everything beautiful for its own time.He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) You will spend more time on the other side of death in eternity than …
THREE OF A PRETTY KIND: In the hands of the Perfect Potter “Yet You, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, YOU are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.”- ISAIAH 64:8You are God’s handiwork! Carved carefully and sculpted specially for a unique purpose! Though I have personally heard this verse …
“Fullness of the Spirit” The forty-day temptation of Jesus in the wilderness was a Holy Spirit-initiated event. Let us picture the first verse of Luke chapter four, which begins with the phrase “Jesus full of the Holy Spirit….” The word for fullness in Greek is pleres, which when translated means, “filled up,” “covered in every …
God’s Compassion: Expect the Unexpected “I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”- Luke 7:47 Simon did not realize that Jesus, God’s Son, must act in God’s way, with compassion, tenderness, and mercy. Simon’s way was to ignore …
Who is Poor in Spirit? The sermon on the mount has not only impacted the Christians alone but secular leaders like M.K Gandhi as well. I remember as a young boy, I asked one of the elders as to how I could live a Christian life? He simply said, try to live by the sermon …
OSWALD CHAMBERS: SEEMINGLY RANDOM CIRCUMSTANCES “If you love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15. Our Lord never insists on our obedience. He stresses very definitely what we ought to do, but he never forces us to do it. We have to obey Him out of a oneness of spirit with Him. That is why whenever …