SCRIPTURE: Mark 9:14-24 “Everything is possible for the one who believes.” Compare the optimist and the pessimist, and you will this verse illustrated. The person who allows doubts to reign in their mind and heart are easily defeated. But the person who allows God-confidence and possibility thinking to reign seem to be undefeatable. It’s not that…
Christian atheists or Atheist christians?
SCRIPTURE: Psalm 53 David is overwhelmed by how many people deny and defy God, how foolish and corrupt so many of them are. While it is true, I believe, that it is foolish to deny God, I do not think that therefore every atheist or agnostic is the worst kind of person morally; in fact I…
Why the world is a dangerous place…
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing about it.” (Albert Einstein)
1 Chronicles 1-16
SCRIPTURE: 1 Chronicles 1-16 What do you sense the Lord saying to you? PRAYER
Who Jesus really is!
SCRIPTURE: Mark 9:9-13 Jesus wants His disciples to stay quiet about His identity as God’s Messiah (the Son of Man of Daniel 7:13-14). He knows that the people do not understand God’s kingdom; they expect a worldly victory over the Romans. But Jesus will accomplish a spiritual victory over sin, death and hell through His death and…
We all display the Lord’s glory!
SCRIPTURE: Mark 9:2-8 I’ve always assumed that this story was the divine nature of Jesus peaking out momentarily. But now I wonder if this is God’s way of showing the glory of the human Jesus as an obedient son. This is the glory that we all contain, as God’s children, when we live in the likeness…
What must I do to be sacrificed?
SCRIPTURE: Mark 8:31-9:1 So is following Jesus about ‘being saved’, or ‘being sacrificed’? Most of the focus of the Church’s message today seems to be on being saved. But Jesus makes it plain that if our motivation is to save our lives, we will lose them… Peter was thinking about survival and success, for himself and…
Who do YOU say He is?
SCRIPTURE: Mark 8:27-30 We are so familiar with calling Jesus ‘the Christ’ that the shock value is gone. For centuries the people of Israel (and of all nations) have been hoping and waiting for a Deliverer, a God-ordained, God-equipped Messiah who would finally set things straight. Many would-be Messiah’s have come and gone, but none were…
The kind of person God lifts up?
SCRIPTURE: Psalm 52 This Psalm is tied to 1 Samuel 21-22, where Doeg betrays David and slaughtered the priests and citizens of Nob. David accepts responsibility for what happens (1 Samuel 22:22); this Psalm expresses his pain, anger and confidence in God despite this horrific situation. Love for God and people does not mean that we ignore injustice or abuse…
No ordinary people!!!
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does…