Life doesn’t always match our hopes: When you are young trying to figure out the future you ask, “Why God doesn’t seem to bless you with a clear path.” When you are older looking back at the past, you ask, “Why didn’t God help me in times of trouble?” Somewhere...
The day has come, and in that day God has made the covenant not only with the house of Israel and the House of Judah but also with us. We are renewed in our hope that God will not be denied in our lives. Not God’s grace, not our faith,...
Do you ever in your life think about all the different authorities you answer to. I suspect if you ever have, you likely came up with a long list in various spheres of your life that in some way or another have authority over you. At home, at work, in...
Fair is fair. This is what we teach our children and now our grandchildren. That if you work hard and do your best, the fruits of your labors will bear witness. I teach this because I was taught that. And my mother taught me because she was taught that. In...
There is a saying that goes around among those who make a living out of teaching the Bible that where two or three are gathered in His name there are ten different opinions and no two agree. When I am in the mix, I find myself to be unanimous in...
One way or another humanity has tried to return to that time in life where they knew exactly how they stood with God. The epitome of this struggle to return, in the Bible has always been through the keeping of the Law. The law became our attempt to return: If...
This is what I know and this is what I preach. The promise of God is this; I am with you always even until the end of this age. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus; neither height nor depth nor powers...
The claim of faith is that whatever Jesus has, he gives to us. The scripture itself this morning is the vision that John rightly gives to people of faith that Jesus’ death was our very way to life. He gave to us a way to follow and a promise to...