Solid Ground

  Psalm 46   A picture of another world: a place where children walk barefoot because they have no choice, it takes hours to purify your water if it is not boiled; you hate it when it rains because the dirt roads run through your doorway.  That is reality for a large...

A Pantry

What do you do when your refrigerator is empty (like it’s ever empty)? You go to the cabinet right? Some people even have a room, or closet devoted to keeping extra food when they run out of something. The purpose of a pantry is to never run out. We should have the...

Elect

Titus 3:3 “For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.” Interpretation: How can we judge something that we once were?  All are in need of...

A Scene

Acts 3:7   “And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength”   You know those commercials with the starving children with flies on their faces, and bare, dirty feet?  Click. Change the channel.  You know...

And They Changed the World

Acts 17:6 “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too”             What a reputation.  Various people of our generation have reputations that are widely known.  They are usually a reputation for something ridiculous they did, but the world still...

He Called Me “Brother”

and laying hishands on him he said, “Brother Saul…”   There is always at least someone that we can think about that is “marked” by something they have done.  We alienate them, shun them, or ignore them.  We view ourselves better then them in some way. But they...

The Humble King

Philippians 2:6 “who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God” We as Christians hear a similar testimony from people in the church, “I left my amazing job to serve the Lord” or “I used to make this amount of dollars but now I only...

Put on Jesus

  Romans 13: 12-14 “The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in...

All Him

  1 Corinthians 1:17 “For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.” Interpretation: Sometimes we rely too much on our religion and not enough...

Prayer

Colossians 4:2-4 “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it...