18He replied, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.’” 19So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover. ...
If God showed up at your house or office as would a flesh and blood friend and say to you, “Hello, I am God, and I am here to answer all your questions.” Then, He proceeded to answer the “why?” questions about losing a loved one, or He let you in on the solutions to wor...
Different days focus on different issues, but the authors are so deliberate about including childless women that they even use the phrase “if there is a child in your life” rather than assuming that their readers all have children. The first time I read that, I gasped–it was such a ...
The CBD (Central Business District) of Melbourne and the inner-city suburbs bear similar features. We have the State Parliament House, small and large churches, including St Patrick’s, St Paul’s, and City On a Hill (which is a big church that meets at Hoytes Cinemas in the CBD). Th...
One summer day, when I was home from school, my momma found I had done something wrong and told me to “wait till your father get’s home”. I spent the rest of that day, holed up in my bedroom, worrying about what my father was going to do to me, how he would deal with me...
“So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, ...
I had found a wonderful discipleship house, with young guys who had had the same life experiences as me, and leaders who were worthy of great respect. Yet, my rebellious heart persisted….The day that I got saved was the first day I ever picked up a Bible willingly. I prayed that, ...
What do others see when they observe your speech, your body language, your actions? Do they see love? Do they see God in you? In the next and final post, we’ll look at what John says about how to show the love of God to others. ...
I responded to the question Max put forth that went something like this: will you be prepared to reply when the time comes for you to respond about your faith that could mean your death, as it did for Queen Esther and Mordechai? I am barely comfortable when I have to respond, and it...
But this truth of my text has been not only wounded in the house of the friends of Christianity, but it has been overlooked by one of the very frequent objections that we hear made to evangelical teaching, that, according to it, a man is judged according to his belief and not according...