Paul wants the brothers and sisters to be informed. This would mean they didn’t understand the return of Christ and the condition of those who had died. He encourages them not to grieve like those who go to funerals with no hope of ever seeing their loved ones again. Then he begins to...
Hebrews 12: 1-3 says: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher...
for about four years, Ronnie (my brother) and I were raised by our sweet grandmother, whom we called “Mamaw.” She fed us, bathed us, and loved us. Though it seemed large then, the house had only two bedrooms and two showerless bathrooms. I slept in Mamaw’s bedroom on a cot b...
Paul is filled with joy when he thinks of his friends in Philippi. Which people in your life fill you with joy just by thinking about them? Family members? Friends? Simply the memory of loved ones can fill us with joy. I think about my kids and grandkids, and I feel near immediate ...
thirty, I enrolled at a Bible college. I thought God wanted me to serve him, and theological training was a steppingstone to full-time ministry. I started working in my church as a pastor while I was still at college. But meanwhile I discovered (once again!) that I loved academic ...
SEEING JESUS IN AHASUERUS OBEDIENT WIFE Esther 2:17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. ...
Now, lacking any rain, I might give them some grace for their lack of understanding about something as tactile as rain, seeing as they had never seen or experienced rain. I can work off another assumption: Noah explained that the water would also come gushing out of the earth. You cannot...
Now John is speaking about the two emotions in themselves, irrespective, so far as his language goes, of the objects to which they are directed. What he is saying is true about love and fear, whatever or whosoever may be loved or dreaded. But the context suggests the application in his...
While I never understood what exactly God meant with this statement about Esau and Jacob, I knew that God loved them both and that some day it would all make sense. While studying the minor prophets a few weeks ago, it finally became clear. Paul exhorted us to study the whole counsel ...
They found the eleven disciples talking about Peter’s experience of seeing Jesus (Luke 24:34). Suddenly, Jesus appears again! They think they have seen a spirit, but Jesus tells them, “Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” V. 39. ...