Awareness is a rare gift. Some are born with it. Others receive it at a special time in life. To see beyond our own peripheral vision can be a blessing or a curse. Being aware of others’ faults, mistakes, and weaknesses; judging and condemning them is a curse to...
Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” Luke 24:13-24 After the resurrection two of Jesus’ disciples were returning home. Jesus caught up with them, and although he already knew what was in their...
Since Jerry’s leg amputation seven years ago, with the diagnosis of arteriosclerosis and diabetes, we spend a lot of our time in doctors' offices. We were in an old facility yesterday, which houses the temporary offices of a group of vascular surgeons. Their offices...
As Jesus was crucified the Jewish leaders looked up and ridiculed Him. He looked down and said, “Father, forgive them; they don’t know what they are doing.” By His death He was proving how desperate was man’s condition, with no means of escaping His Father’s wrath,...
"My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God." Psalm 84:2 I am addicted to the Word of God. In it is the power of the life of Jesus Christ, the Lord. The power of the gospel to save, (Romans...
In this seventh chapter Andrew Murray brings us to the heart of his message, the original title of Humility ~ the Beauty of Holiness. (PDF) He reminds us that humility is the fruit of holiness; the inward impression and the outward expression of holiness. He has...
Oh, how often our thoughts get us into trouble; how we lack in the most important things of life because our thought patterns are wrong. It is good to have light cast on our own thinking so that we can say, but , I thought. “But, I thought I was okay.” My opinion was...
Jesus Christ is no longer a baby lying in a manger; Nor a man hanging on a cross; But The Man Seated at the right hand of God “The image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in...
As our pastor is preaching through this most powerful of Paul’s letters (to the Roman Christians) my desire is to make note of the impressions that the Lord is leaving on my own heart and life; with the prayer that the gospel to which Paul was called and set apart,...