Today we get to open another gift that Jesus brought us when He chose to lay aside His glory and enter our world. How drab the colors must have seemed! How unusual the music! How strange it must have been to walk and talk among people who were created by His Father yet failed to …
Tag: Salvation
Healed By The Cross
Isaiah 53:4-6 – Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. All …
Draw Near At Christmas
Today, we begin our journey toward Christmas. Growing up in a Baptist church, we didn’t celebrate Advent like some denominations do. In fact, the first time I experienced a family gathering around an Advent candle, I was already married with at least one child. But I did understand the anticipation of waiting for Christmas, and …
Unfulfilled Prophecy?
Have you ever had someone point out an Old Testament prophecy that hasn’t been fulfilled in history as evidence of error in the scriptures? How do you answer them? The obvious answer is that the final fulfillment is still to come and that God’s timeline isn’t the same as ours. In fact, God is eternal …
I See The Lord
Throughout scripture, there are many descriptions of God, but we only read of about ten instances where God’s prophets were privileged to be given a vision of Him in heaven. Jacob saw the Lord standing at the top of the ladder on which angels ascended and descended (Genesis 28:12-13). Moses and the seventy elders, along …
The Way Of The Word 