There is a danger from viewing the sweetness of a Christmas pageant where all our children are so fresh-faced and adorable and everything is so clean and neat and nice, and the lighting is just right, the costumes so well done, and the staging so powerful, and the music so inspiring, that we can subconsciously think that this is the way it really was.
Text: Matthew 2:7-12God designed us to live in community with others and to work in partnership with one another for the sake of the kingdom. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
Text: Colossians 4:7-18We begin with the words of Flannery O’Connor: “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” […]
Text: Matthew 2:1-6Better days are coming, child of God. Let this thought encourage you in your long journey home. God has determined to make you like Jesus. Because you are his child, you will one day be like his Son. That family resemblance, which is today so faint as to sometimes be almost invisible, will in that happy day be so clear that no one in the universe could miss it.
Text: I John 3:1-3During the rehearsal for her wedding a nervous bride was having a difficult time remembering all the details. Her kind […]
Text: Colossians 3:12-17Jesus forgets what we remember. And he remembers what we forget. You can find the whole gospel in those two sentences.
Text: Matthew 25:31-46The time is short, the world is passing away, the end of all things is at hand. Who knows if this is the day when Jesus will return? Now is the time, this is the hour, and God is calling you. What will you do?
Text: Matthew 25:14-30As we focus on those things that are eternal, and put on the new self, we will experience freedom from those things that have shackled us in the past.
Text: Colossians 3:1-11No one can “borrow” another person’s faith. One day you will stand before the Lord and he will say, “Why should I let you into my heaven?” What answer will you give?
Text: Matthew 25:1-13Whenever I speak on Bible prophecy, one question always comes up sooner or later: When is Jesus coming back? No […]
Text: Matthew 24:36-51