God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Romans 16:18 NIV We can almost hear the author´s anguish in the last words of his letter. He tries to guide his reader’s hearts to seek God instead of being... Continue Reading →
The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead--whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. Acts 5:30 (NIV) What a crass manner to accuse their accusers! The Disciples point out recklessly to the jury of their own guilt in the death of Jesus Christ. Crazy! Insane! Nobody wants to hear... Continue Reading →
Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from among his people.' Acts 3:23 (NIV) Who are they who do not listen to Jesus? Who are the ones who do not listen to hear from God? Are they the ones that refuse to call themselves Christians? Or could they even... Continue Reading →
"Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.´ Acts 3:17 (NIV Peter brings attention to the part all have played in the plan of God´s redemption. He lets all know the blame that rests upon us as a people who needed saving. Our tendency towards ourselves and not toward... Continue Reading →
‘I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.’ John 17:9 (NIV) Jesus makes a sharp distinction when He is talking to His Father about people. Do we? Our Saviour does nothing off-hand ever! Christ never throws words around without a purpose. ... Continue Reading →
In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. John 1:4-5 (NIV) What mysterious power does God have that men need? Why do people search to know more about Him? Do we wonder? Or have we outgrown the thought... Continue Reading →
Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!” Mark 9:7 (TNIV) Here we find ourselves with Peter, James and John. The sky is hidden from us as a great cloud envelops us. There is an overwhelming sense of a... Continue Reading →
So they began to plead with Jesus to go away from their region. Mark 5:17 (NWT) What a poor reaction the townspeople had to the miraculous healing Jesus performed on the afflicted man in the graveyard. How could there be people so insensitive as to reject the opportunity to find out a little more of... Continue Reading →
Searching For Christ 