“See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon” (Luke 18:31-32).
When you get a phone call at 9 a.m. and the caller ID indicates it’s from Wailuku, Hawai’i, you assume it’s not a friend calling to gloat about his vacation.
“For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6). The Word of God and the Spirit of God must never be separated... To seek the direction of the Spirit without the Word may soon lead to confusion, disorder, and false doctrine. And in the same breath to have the Word without the Spirit may lead one to possess a pride-centered head knowledge that completely lacks the Christian heart of love. For the Spirit breathes life to the wonderful Words of Life! To have one without the other doesn’t lead to God-glorifying Christian living...
Odds of brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright constructing, then flying, the world’s first powered aircraft in 1903--and Southwest Airlines’ founding what would become one of the world’s leading airlines 64 years later--were about the same.
Pastor’s Pen “Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘You must not do that! I am a… Login to continue reading Login…
Sometimes the cure really is worse than the disease.
“When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression…”
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth” (Job 19:25).
Perhaps you’re old enough to remember when the television weatherman — they were mostly men back then — would offer a laundry list of what the meteorological conditions might be like in the days ahead. He would conclude the forecast with a shrug and say, “We’ll just have to wait and see.”
“Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out” (Leviticus 6:13).