Have you ever done something which was honoring to God and was “put down” by others?Yeah, me too! Were you rebuked as if you did something wrong? Publicly “told off”? Yeah, me too! At the time did you feel “small”, as if you were off track, humiliated? Yeah, me too!And to their shame, these people […]
Jesus told a parable about trusting in yourself – what did He say? How did He define “trusting in yourself”? Luke 18:9-14 Jesus spoke about a tax collector (a Jewish man who collected taxes for Rome and was hated!) and a Pharisee (a religious authority in the Jewish community). Luke 18:9 Both men went up […]
Jesus taught His disciples through parables many times. He is also teaching you and me today, through parables.“Listen” to the lesson in this paraphrased parable: There was a judge, an unrighteous judge who did not fear God or respect people. A widow came to him, time after time, not giving up. What was she asking? […]
“Now He (Jesus) was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart.” Luke 18:1 NASB Continuous, on-going prayer –When you ask, God promises that you will receive an answer.When you seek, God promises that you will find an answer which He sends.When you knock, […]
How do you get your point across to others? Jesus told parables. He told His disciples a parable to “show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart.” Luke 18:1 NASB Follower of Christ, Jesus is telling you and me this parable too. “… at all times… pray…” Do you? […]
Jesus said, “For where two or three have gathered together in my name, I am there in their midst.” Matthew 18:20 NASB Shall we pray…Ephesians 3:14-21 NASB “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,16 that He would grant you, according […]
Who was Lot’s wife that we should remember her?Lot and his family lived in the city of Sodom… The LORD was going to judge Sodom for sexual perversion and warned Lot to take his family out of the city and flee to the mountains and not look back. Two angels from the LORD took Lot […]
What were your plans six weeks ago? Eating meals, meeting friends at a favorite “hang-out”, weddings, engagements celebrated, buying and selling, planting and building… all normal things in life… life being lived. Then – the world was “hit” with COVID-19 as we were living our lives. All of this was happening in the days of […]
Jesus talked to His disciples, and He is talking to us today!(NASB) Luke 17:22-25 “And He said to His disciples, ‘The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you will not see it.23 ‘They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do […]
Choose Courage! You have got to be kidding?! Right? We are living in a world which is filled with fear. What does the Lord God of the Holy Bible say?“Do not fear…” What? How can anyone be without fear today?Because the Lord completes that phrase with “I am with you…”Isaiah 41:10a God Himself is with […]