“Someone from the crowd answered Him, ‘Teacher, I brought my son to You. He has a spirit that makes him unable to speak. Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.’” – Mark 9:17-18 They […]
Read More“I will bring them to My holy mountain and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.” Isaiah 56:7 Jesus would famously quote this passage as He drove out those who had turned […]
Read More“For we are the temple of the living God, as God said…” – 2 Corinthians 6:16 Years ago, retired missionary Ralph Rummage would interject himself into my Sunday night teaching time in a grandfatherly way. He was gentle but firm. I felt rebuked, but at first, I didn’t understand why. In the course of my teaching, I […]
Read More“Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.” – Acts 18:8 What is Baptism? Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water as an act of obedience to Jesus’ command (Matthew 28:19-20). It is a picture of Christ’s burial and resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). It is a symbol of the new life that the […]
Read More“You show that you are Christ’s letter, delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God—not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” – 2 Corinthians 3:3 I don’t come across a reference to “tablets of stone” without thinking about the flowing white hair and fiery, angry eyes of Charlton Heston […]
Read More“Because you have made the Lord—my refuge, the Most High—your dwelling place, no harm will come to you; no plague will come near your tent. For He will give His angels orders concerning you, to protect you in all your ways.” – Psalm 91:9-11 Psalm 91 is a favorite for many. Its’ celebration of the Lord’s […]
Read More“We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, so that you may have great […]
Read More“So Moses…died…his vitality had not left him” – Deuteronomy 34:5, 7 All of us die, but many of us will die before we die because our “vitality” leaves us. The Hebrew word for “vitality” or “strength” refers to a young tree that is fresh and growing. It’s what happens when God’s Spirit inhabits and rules in […]
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