“Thank goodness we’re not that bad!” After Paul told the Roman Christians about mankind’s godless trajectory, he must have looked around at his audience and saw them nodding to each other as if to agree that “those people” were doomed for destruction. Many of the Christians in Rome were Jewish…
The Throne Room of God (Revelation 4)… what an awesome place that must be! Sometimes when I pray, I imagine that I am being escorted in by Jesus to present my requests to the Father. As I approach, I hear the chorus of praise coming from inside. The door opens…
John 5:16-47 When word got out that Jesus was the one who had the nerve to heal the lame man on the Sabbath, the Jews were not happy. The Pharisees had turned the Sabbath into a day when you should not lift a finger, even to do good. So instead…
Cacophony – a harsh discordance of sound; a meaningless mixture of sounds. Not a word I use in a sentence very often. I don’t even recall where I first heard it. But I thought it was a neat word, and it stuck in my head. Interestingly, the only time it…
For those of us that have accepted Jesus as our personal Savior, we have the blessed assurance of knowing our eternity will be spent with God … In the place Jesus has prepared for us. (John 14:2) But hopefully we don’t just stop there. Hopefully we don’t miss out on…