The prayer of the week is based on Isaiah 30:18   Father You are the Lord, the living God of the Bible Who longs to be gracious to me.  Your kindness is beyond my comprehension.  You have raised Your Son, Jesus, from the grave and provided me with a Savior…thank You.  You are compassionate…thank You. […]

  Jesus calls His followers to be witnesses.  We have personal knowledge of being forgiven of our sins; we have personal knowledge of God’s peace that passes all understanding…for when we are in right standing before God through faith in His Son, He gives us His peace.   To witness of the Lord Jesus Christ […]

  Before Jesus died He told His twelve disciples…and told them…and told them…however they did not understand what He told them.  Then after His resurrection He explained, yet again: (NASB) Luke 24:46-47 “…‘Thus, it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance for […]

  The resurrected Jesus stood in the midst of His disciples and said, “Peace be to you.”   Even with those words, they were startled, frightened, and they thought they were seeing a ghost.  (Luke 24:6-37)   Jesus then proved His physical resurrection by having them touch Him and they saw Him eat a piece […]

  Excitedly, two men were telling what they had seen, to Whom they had talked and to Whom they listened as they went toward Emmaus.   These two men had rushed back to Jerusalem, as late as it was, and had found the disciples. They were spilling over with excitement.  It was better than winning […]

  The risen Lord Jesus showed Himself to various individuals over a period of forty days.  He did not just show Himself to one or two, but to many in different circumstances and in various ways.    What are some of the “proofs”?   A huge stone rolled away from the entrance into the rock-hewn […]

The prayer of the week is based on Psalm 22:30-31    How great are Your purposes and plans for all who love You, Lord.  It is through faith in Jesus, the Messiah that we are saved.  We are to tell the next generation what Jesus has done on the cross — where He suffered and […]