Once for All
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“You must be born again.” –Jesus, John 3:7 Last June 6th, about thirty veterans of D-Day, all in their 90s and 100s, celebrated seventy-five years of the greatest of victories in Normandy, France. D-Day was the largest naval, air, and land operation in history. Hitler himself was astounded by what »
God Is Simply God
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come »
Rest in Peace
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” -Ephesians 1:2 “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” -Romans 5:1 “Requiescat in pace” is the oft-expressed Latin phrase for the familiar “RIP” used in »
Personally Embracing God’s Love for You
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” -John 3:16 “...but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8 We all know the »
Falling Away
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.” –Jesus, John 16:1 The Gospels are filled with the teachings of Jesus. The Apostle John tells us that if all the things that Jesus said and did were recorded, the books written would fill the world »
The Temptation of Money Over Character
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers and said, ‘Tell people, “His disciples »
Few or Many?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Then one said to Him, ‘Lord, are there few who are saved?’…” -Luke 13:23 “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, »
Many Pigs, One Man
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.” -Luke 8:33 This is a strange story to say the least. A quite deranged man met Jesus directly as He got out of a boat »
The Interminable Wail
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen.” -Revelation 1:7 Bad habits often linger. I have a terrible habit of sometimes spontaneously letting out a »
