God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
There is an amazing thing that happens with the sacred scriptures. Words written to instruct or help a people in a certain time can and do have the power to speak in an equally important way to another people in a completely different situation and a different age. John uses the words that Isaiah had... Continue Reading →
There is today within the church of our Lord, a deadly virus. This terrible tragedy is attacking the would-be remnant and defenseless flock of Jesus. The illness is not one however merely a physical one but a mental and spiritual one. The soul destroying disease we speak of is the preoccupation the individual has with... Continue Reading →
One thing which we all seem to get caught up in when remembering the life of Christ, is to celebrate the wonder and significance of the moment. This can be and is a very admirable thing to do indeed; however, what we do not always do is celebrate what Christ did as being something of... Continue Reading →
Jesus said to her ¨Did I not tell you that if you believed you should see God´s glory? ¨ John 11:40 As usually the case Jesus exposes human propensity to bring all things down to our level and our understanding. We walk here on earth as if God and His kingdom do not exist. To... Continue Reading →
What a power packed text! There is enough good hearty instruction here to set souls free and deliver them again into the hand of the One to whom we belong. Long I have felt the importance and seen the beauty of this text. But today I stopped while reading over it. So many of the... Continue Reading →
True to the usual way of Jesus, when He spoke, the words addressed a common situation. As we see continually throughout the Bible, men and women look with earthly eyes at the passing scenes and take always the physical and the common interpretations of those moments. However Jesus was constantly trying to tell us and... Continue Reading →
I found a passage from Luther´s Commentary on Galatians where on p.14. He was defending Jesus as very God and that it was correct and just that only God could make amends for the damages of sin. Here Luther goes so far as to point finger at those sects who still cling to the notion... Continue Reading →
For many years I have quietly suffered over the divisions in the body of Christianity. It seems such a shame that people, having the freedom to focus on anything they choose, prefer to direct their efforts not at the One whose name they use, but on any and all other issues that must pass before... Continue Reading →
Before the Throne Through the mystical haze and fog of reality we step cautiously into the dream land of imagination. As the scene becomes clearer and the last wisps part, we can start to see a large crowd of people. As we venture forward into the midst of them we notice that they are waiting... Continue Reading →
Searching For Christ 