Letting God speak
I apologize to my readers. On my introduction page to this blog I state that I will post once or twice a week. Well, it has been over three weeks since I posted. A nasty bout of COVID left me severely fatigued for a couple of weeks and then some personal issues consumed all of …
In my last post I explained that while the traditional Christmas nativity scene is not accurate, at least it puts the focus of the holiday where it belongs, back on the birth of Christ. Also in that post I looked at Jesus and what that original birth meant to Him and what we can learn …
I have always loved Nativity scenes. I remember as a child helping my grandmother put out a huge one in the living room every December. It was like a family heirloom. It was huge. It had a large wooden stable and heavy (lead?) figurines about the size of the old-fashioned GI Joes of the early …
2 Corinthians 6:16b – 17 ESV … God said, “I will make My dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome …
Joshua 1:10-11 ESV And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’” …
Matthew 16:25-27 ESV For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? For the Son of Man …
Matthew 16:24 ESV Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Being a disciple of Jesus is a three step process; denial, death, and obedience. First we must decide that we will master our desires, not our desires master us. …
Matthew 16:21 – 23 ESV From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it …
Matthew 16:13-20 ESV Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say …
Matthew 16:13-20 ESV Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say …