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“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons...
Jesus Tells It Like It Is
Jesus never sugarcoats the truth. He speaks plainly about who He is and who we are.
We are sinners. He is not.
We are flawed. He is perfect.
We are created. He is the Creator.
For many Christians, John 3:16 is at the core of our faith:
But what does it really mean...
“You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“’My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
For those whom the Lord loves He...
“O Lord, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill?
He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness,
And speaks truth in his heart.
He does not slander with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
In whose eyes a reprobate is...
“Behold, the Lord God will come with might,
With His arm ruling for Him.
Behold, His reward is with Him
And His recompense before Him.
Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,
In His arm He will gather the lambs
And carry them in His bosom;
He will gently lead the nursing ewes.” (Isaiah 40:10-11...
Learn to Endure
“Jesus, I Surrender My Life To You
Take Care of Everything”
After my heart surgery, they had to keep me loaded up on some strong drugs, for pain, of course. I have never liked drugs; in fact when I was very young in the Navy, I was surrounded by men who were highly...
“He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.” (Isaiah 53:7 NASB’95)
When Jesus was arrested for a crime he did not commit, and when he was given a...
The Bible shows us that God chose a unique moment to match the creative power of His stirring up the sea waves.
The Lord God did this after he sent an angel to stir up the waters. This happened at the pool of Bethesda, where the curing of a lame man was as stunning to the senses as are the...
For the soul that has a saving relationship with Messiah Jesus, true prosperity has nothing to do with being affirmed by the materials that are possessed. The Good News of our Savior is prosperous in every way, in all circumstances. This is why straining the blessed message to attempt or...
“How long will you assail a man,
That you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.” (Psalms 62:3-4 NASB’95)...
“Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel, so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else, and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord...
Sometimes within the seeming simplicity of what I read, in the Bible, awesomeness of God's
direct, written revelation is acknowledged but not given an immediate place to
render a stirring of my heart. Call it my humanness, frailty--even too harsh of a
self-assessment, the fact is that I know...
There are some interesting contrasts and parallels between the Gospel narrative concerning John the Baptizer (John 1) and the Pharisee named Nicodemus (John 3). All Scripture quotes are from the NASB-1995.
Apostle John’s description of John the Baptist, Jesus, and the spiritual battle...
“Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away...
“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit...