“Jesus awakes, as a mighty man from his slumber, unwraps the napkin from His head and lays it by itself; unwinds the grave clothes in which love had wrapped Him and puts them by themselves; for He had abundant leisure; He was in no haste; He was not about to escape...
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...
"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...
So as not to lose the main thoughts of the study begun by our pastor yesterday in the Book of Romans I wanted to note and save these ~ not all, but those that we come away with; that apply to here and now, for us. Paul, in his letter to the Romans described himself as...
Growing up in the church I often heard of symbolisms of the cross of Christ. The one I remember was the vertical post as representative of the relationship between God and the believer; the horizontal bar representing the relationship between believers. Christ and His...