Adam and Eve had two sons named Cain and Abel…when they had grown to manhood they both gave offerings to the LORD God.  Abel’s offering was accepted by God, Cain’s was not.  The Bible does not tell us the ‘why’ but it does tell us the facts. Cain became angry and it controlled him.  The […]

(NASB) Psalm 51:1-2 “Be GRACIOUS to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin.”

Red Letter Day Attribute/Name of God ~ Name   Many people know the first part of the third commandment: (NASB) Exodus 20:7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain…” but are you aware of the second part?  “…for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name […]

How are you going to begin this new year?  How do your prayers reveal your heart for God?  How shall you pray as you turn the page of the calendar to 2012? A heart for God reveals an intimacy, a desire to know the LORD’S ways. A heart for God desires to be taught how […]

Where do you focus your thoughts when life is difficult, or dangerous, or pain-filled or when fear and/or anger grip you? When our focus is on our situation or ourselves…it can be defeating and depressive. Many people say ‘pick yourself up by your bootstraps’…or ‘snap out of it’. My friend…that has never worked for me.  […]

A new year has new possibilities, new potential, and the prospect of a new way of looking at life.  Followers of Christ have been made into a new creation by God.  When I received Christ Jesus into my life I was made into a new creation…His life in me.  Does this make me perfect…no…but I […]

As 2011 is coming to an end and 2012 is ‘just around the corner’, how are you facing the future?  The followers of Christ have a hope for the future, and that hope is in the living Lord Jesus Christ. How I believe does impact the way I think and behave.  How I enter each […]

(NIV) Ephesians 1:18-20 “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” Is this your prayer for yourself?  For others?

Red Letter Day Attribute/Name of God ~ Mighty (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.” The child Jesus was born, the […]

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem, perhaps as long as two years, wise men came looking for the child who had been born ‘King of the Jews’.  They went to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel where King Herod lived. The wise men told Herod: (NASB) Matthew 2:2 “Where is He who has been born King […]