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Don’t Give Up!

12/05/2016 0 Comment

I love to see young people give their lives to Jesus. I love to see them commit to him in faith, dying with him in baptism, and starting a journey with him that will last the rest of their lives… and beyond.

But as much as those young commitments bring me joy, I’m truly moved by those who come to Christ late in life. Many of us become set in our ways as we grow older, but some are willing to be born again despite their advanced years.

Last month in Cuba, I got to see several people be baptized i..

The Unspoken Source of Anxiety

08/05/2016 0 Comment

My hangover was terrible, but I could survive that.

The nausea was palpable, but I knew it would pass.

The discipline was severe, but I deserved it.

What I couldn't bear was the guilt.

Our family tree is marked by a blight of alcoholism. My dad made it clear: alcohol abuse leads to trouble, and that trouble leads to misery. More than once I promised that I would never get drunk.

Then why did I? Why did I, at the age of 16, get so ragingly inebriated that I could not drive? Why did I drive a..

An Answer for the Times When There Are No Answers

28/04/2016 0 Comment

There are times when your entire world is turned upside down. Times when the pain is unbearable and the future seems unfathomable. When God did not answer your prayer and you wonder if he even heard your cries. Events that change your life forever. The things that make tomorrow an impossible dream. And one of the worst of these is the death of a child. It does not seem to matter if they die in the womb or as adults in an accident. Death strikes at any age. And parents have to bury children.

God Answers the Mess of Life

21/04/2016 0 Comment

You stare into the darkness. The ceiling fan whirls above you. Your husband slumbers next to you.

In a few hours, the alarm will sound and the demands of the day will shoot you like a clown out of a cannon into a three-ring circus of meetings, bosses, and baseball practices.

And for the millionth time, you'll make breakfast, schedules, payroll and… But for the life of you, you can't make sense of this thing called life — its beginnings and endings, cradles and cancers, cemeteries and questions.

The meaning of life!
The poor choices of life?
God answers the mess of life with one word: grace!
Do we really understand it?
A prophet of God in a wild time spoke for God and said:[Thus says the LORD God:] “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you!”

(Ezekiel 36:26).
Grace calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off!
We are made new and live by a new power!
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, i..

Go and Do Likewise

14/04/2016 0 Comment

The questioner had posed his inquiry to ridicule Jesus, but the response reframed the responsibilities to others then and now.

The story is found in the gospel of Luke, the tenth chapter. And it, as is always the case when Jesus speaks, has numerous facets. It's called the story of the Good Samaritan, about the disenfranchised traveler, who when others didn't want to get involved, took care of a robbery victim who had been left for dead. The story begins in verse 29 and concludes with ..

Remember Your Worth

09/04/2016 0 Comment

Paul used marriage imagery when he wrote to the Corinthians about the importance of knowing their value to Jesus as his bride:I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him (2 Corinthians 11:2).
Remember what you are worth!

The Bible says:You were bought… not with something that ruins like gold or silver, but with the precious blood of Christ… (1 Peter 1:18-19 NCV).
Ever feel like you have nothing?

Jus..

TWENTY!

06/04/2016 0 Comment

Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many? (John 6:9).
As a boy, my childlike imagination had no trouble believing in the Lord's miracles. In fact, I loved to imagine what it would have been like to have been there and seen them.
We are blessed these days with several very good films depicting the life of Christ. They have put depictions of these miracles on the screen for us. Some of these videos are very much like I had imagined..

He Did It for You!

01/04/2016 0 Comment

Jesus says to a doubting Thomas:Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed (John 20:29).

When God entered time and became a man, he who was boundless became bound. Imprisoned in flesh.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God ..

What Do We Do to Jesus?

22/03/2016 0 Comment

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him (Matthew 27:27-31).
The soldiers' assignment was simple. Take the Nazarene to the hill and kill him. But they wanted to have some fun first.
Strong, armed soldiers circled an exhausted, nearly dead, Galilean carpenter and beat up on him. The beating was commanded. The crucifixion was ordered. But the spitting?
Spitting isn't intended to hurt the body — it can't. Spitting is intended to degrade the soul, and it does.
Ever ..

God’s Masterpiece

03/03/2016 0 Comment

If you pass your days mumbling, “I'll never make a difference; I'm not worth anything,” guess what? You'll be sentencing yourself to a life of gloom without parole! When you do that, you're questioning God's judgment. You're second-guessing the Creator's taste.

David says you were “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). God can't stop thinking about you. A later line in David's psalm confirms it. David tries to calculate the number of thought..