God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 2:4 (NIV) To the precious in the sight of the Lord the Holy Spirit is given. They have walked with our Saviour. They have followed Him faithfully. Now a mysterious and powerful... Continue Reading →
So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.’ John 8:28 (NIV) Jesus talks of being lifted up. This sounds like an... Continue Reading →
‘And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.’ John 5:27 (NIV) All who have come to contemplate God, sooner or later come to the question of what they believe about Jesus. Could we reduce the importance of the Son of God and still say that we believe in... Continue Reading →
Or what can you give in Exchange for your soul? Mark 8:37 (TNIV) Did we create ourselves? Were we the ones who planned our existence? Did we fabricate our physical make up? Did we engineer everything, thinking of all the details? Did we control the variables? Did we pull all the millions of pieces together... Continue Reading →
“Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. Mark 6:3 (NIV) “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is... Continue Reading →
But on catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down to him. Mark 5:6 (NWT) What a frightening thought it is, that a raving mad man was so driven by evil spirits that he lived out in the cemetery howling out in the night. Nobody could subdue this stricken man until... Continue Reading →
And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not the man for the Sabbath: Mark 2:27 (KJV) Most everybody has been instructed extensively on what we should do and how we should do it. Whether we come from one country or the other, one culture or the next and even one... Continue Reading →
Jesus said: ¨Leave this place, for the little girl did not die but is sleeping.¨ at this they began to laugh at him scornfully. Matthew 9:24 (New World Translation) Do you think that Jesus Christ came to the earth to help those people whose lives He touched back then in Palestine? Or are you of... 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 →
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 →
Searching For Christ 