Your Rights – God’s Will?

  Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak… Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.   1 Cor. 8:1-13 “I have my...

We Stand in God’s Presence Without Fear

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers… For this is what you asked of the Lord your God… when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”  Deut. 18:15-20 Did...

And Therefore I Have Hope

But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”  Lam....

Something Good Is Coming

After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!”  Mark 1:14-20 Cartoons of a prophetic character calling people to “Repent!” are very...

A Pile of Rubble

What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; those who use...

Are You Loving or Just Indifferent?

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”  Jonah 3:1-5, 10 You remember Jonah. He was the man who ran away from God’s mission, and God brought him back forcefully by means of a...

We Have Comfort to Share!

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by...

Jesus’ Words Are Real Comfort

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to...

They Need Us

  Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to...

Mercy Came Before Judgement

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to (speak to the heart of) Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.  Isaiah 40:1-2 The prophet...