(NASB) Isaiah 9:6 “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” Give Praise, Thanksgiving and Glory to God for His Son, Who was born, lived, […]

   True friends will lead you to Jesus.   There was a day in which Jesus was teaching in a home…with an ever-present crowd filling the room and possibly spilling out into the yard and even street. Down the street came several men carrying a stretcher with a paralyzed man on it. (See Luke 5:18-20) […]

   From where do you get your authority for what you do today?  Is your authority through your job and the people who are ‘over’ you?  Is your authority through a church organization?  Is your authority from a group of people?   Is your ultimate authority from God in all of these instances?  OR do […]

 Listening to Jesus is to be attentive, alert and acting on what you are being taught by Him! (NASB) Luke 5:17 “One day He (Jesus) was teaching; and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power […]

   Today, The Grapevine of Communication, are cell phones, iPads, the internet and all the ways people communicate with these devices. How did people communicate in the time of Jesus?  By the grapevine of telling one, then another and another…verbally and personally. (NASB) Luke 5:15 “But the news about Him was spreading even farther, and […]

   When Jesus healed a leprous man He told him to tell no one.  Then His next instructions followed the Jewish Law of Moses concerning lepers.  Go to a priest.  A priest was to ascertain if a person with leprosy was healed.  The priest was to give a sacrificial offering in behalf of the healed […]

 The dictionary defines leprosy: A chronic, infectious, granulomatous disease occurring almost exclusively in tropical and subtropical regions…it can be non-contagious or contagious…   If people with leprosy were contagious they had to live apart from others and shout “unclean” when others were around.  Lepers were outcasts for the sake of the many. Such a man […]

Use your name when you read the personal pronouns as you pray: (I, my, you, your) (NASB) Ephesians 3:14-19 “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 to the riches of His glory, […]

   The “why’s” and “what ifs” are not always important.  The “Because…of Jesus” is all important.   Simon, James and John were partners in a fishing business and sometimes they fished all night without any results to show for all their hard work. Because Jesus was in Simon’s boat one day, He asked Simon to […]

   Simon and his partners had fished all night…nada, zilch, nothing had been caught… all      night      long. Jesus used Simon’s boat as a means to speak to a crowd on the shore of Lake Galilee.  Then Jesus asked Simon to “Put out into deeper water and let down your nets for a catch.”  (See Luke […]