Jesus taught that the Sabbath was made for people…and people were not created for the Sabbath. Jesus demonstrated this several times when He healed people on the Sabbath and even did so in a synagogue. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week. Yet, followers of Christ celebrate and worship God on […]
Man’s rules, many times, take God’s commandments and narrow them. Think about the Sabbath day in which Jesus and His disciples were walking through a field of ripened grain. The disciples picked some of that grain, rubbing it with their hands to remove the outer husk. Then they ate the grain. Some Pharisees […]
The following Scripture can be used as a basis for your prayer: (NASB) Isaiah 58:13-14 “If because of the Sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And all the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your own ways, from […]
Eleven days into 2013, and is your life pretty much the same as 2012? If you are a follower of Christ, you have been given His life in you. The old is gone, the new has come! Isn’t it amazing that we, so often, live as if nothing has happened to us? What adjectives can […]
Old wine and new wine are not mixed to drink. The old wine, due to the “aging” process develops its “bouquet”, its flavor. New wine will become “old wine” as it ages, developing its flavor as it sits bottled on a shelf somewhere. People, many times, are slow to accept new ways. They like the […]
Jesus taught in parables…and the truths of God were given through these “pictures” in which one has to think and to reason and to understand what those truths are. (NASB) Luke 5:37-38 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, […]
Parables are word pictures which illustrate a point or truth. Jesus used parables to explain various truths of God. One time, Jesus was answering hostile questions from a group of Pharisees and their scribes (Luke 5:30, 33). His reply was that He had come to heal the sick and that His disciples would fast after […]
Comparisons which challenge can seem to make one side “bad” and the other “good”. The Pharisee’s were saying that Jesus’ disciples were bad because they did not fast and pray as their followers did. ‘Why, even John the Baptist’s disciples fast and offer prayers, but not Yours!’ (See Luke 5:33) How did Jesus respond? […]
(NASB) Lamentations 3:22-26 “The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. 232They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 24 ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I have hope in Him. 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him. […]
Red Letter Day Attribute/Name of God ~ Redeemer People search for a way to relieve the guilt of specific sins…they try many ways to wipe sin out of their lives…without success. Could this be said of you? There is only one way to receive God’s forgiveness and that is through faith in His Son, […]