A message from the series “Holiday Messages.” Christian faith rests on, centers in, and flows from the answer to the question of Who Jesus is. In the opening verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus is the Promised Messiah. The Spirit reveals Who Jesus is through His royal genealogy, through Joseph’s experience of the events surrounding His birth, and through the visit of the magi.
A message from the series “Promised Messiah.” Christian faith rests on, centers in, and flows from the answer to the question of Who Jesus is. In the opening verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus is the Promised Messiah. The Spirit reveals Who Jesus is through His genealogy and through Joseph’s experience of the events surrounding His birth.
A message from the series “Promised Messiah.” Many people insist that Jesus of Nazareth was a really good man who was changed into a myth by his followers because of their hopeless desperation. In the opening verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus is the Promised Messiah, Who is the Magnificent Hope.
A message from the series “Cultivating Gratitude in the Garden of Your Life.” Cultivating gratitude in the garden of your life requires both divine intervention and deliberate attention. God will do His part. Will you do yours? The weeds of discontent and dissatisfaction that compete with gratitude for space in your life and the emotional and spiritual resources you need for gratitude to thrive need to be pulled up by their roots of self-centered expectations. And the soil of your life, which is your soul, needs to be prepared to produce and sustain gratitude. God removes toxic sin from and infuses life into dead souls through our faith in Christ. And our Lord nourishes living souls as we continually feed on His words for spiritual nutrients. Living souls are prepared for us to plant the seeds of gratitude.
A message from the series “Cultivating Gratitude in the Garden of Your Life.” Cultivating gratitude in the garden of your life requires both divine intervention and deliberate attention. God will do His part. Will you do yours? The weeds of discontent and dissatisfaction that compete with gratitude for space in your life and the emotional and spiritual resources you need for gratitude to thrive need to be pulled up by their roots of self-centered expectations. And the soil of your life needs to be prepared to produce and sustain gratitude.
A message from the series “Cultivating Gratitude in the Garden of Your Life.” If your life is a garden, what’s its condition? Is your life littered with the discards of indulgence and regret? Or adorned with the bounty of righteousness and gratitude? Cultivating gratitude in the garden of your life requires both deliberate attention and
divine intervention. God will do His part. Will you do yours?
A message from the series “Holiday Messages.” Families and Friends have been gathering for Thanksgiving Celebrations throughout history. Thanksgiving Celebrations are included in God’s Covenant Expectations with His People.
The Covenant Expectations reveal important Truths for our Thanksgiving Celebrations.
A message from the series “Righteousness 101.” Scripture describes those who have been made new in Christ as His ambassadors. Ambassadors for Christ see what He sees.
Luke 18:35-43 records what happened when Lord Jesus was coming into Jericho on His way to Jerusalem. What did the Man by the road see?
A message from the series “Righteousness 101.” The Holy Spirit reveals to us in Scripture that Righteousness was tremendously important to Lord Jesus. He spoke of it very often. And He said Righteousness is required for entry into the
Kingdom of Heaven, which is populated by those who welcome God’s Sovereignty and is the Realm of His Favor. In fact, the Spirit reveals to us in Scripture that to enter the Kingdom of
Heaven, we must be as Righteous as God. Which, of course, is impossible for any of us to do. But, from His Love, God gives us His Righteousness in Christ which we receive through Faith. So, then, that raises 3 Crucial Questions.
A message from the series “Righteousness 101.” The Holy Spirit reveals to us in Scripture that Righteousness was tremendously important to Lord Jesus. He spoke of it very often. And He said Righteousness is required for entry into the
Kingdom of Heaven, which is populated by those who welcome God’s Sovereignty and is the Realm of His Favor. In fact, the Spirit reveals to us in Scripture that to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we must be as Righteous as God. Which, for those who take this Truth seriously, raises 3 crucial questions.
