As he says in Hosea: "I will call them 'my people' who are not my people; and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one,"–Romans 9:25It is written in the book of Hosea that Hosea's wife, Gomer, bore him a son. Afterward, it is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted..." (2 Corinthians 11:4)From time to time there...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. ~1 John 3.1And what manner of love it is! Think of who is thus called: us – sinners and rebels against God’s kingdom. We deserved...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
All men confess, at least to some degree, that they are sinners. But I have found there are many kinds of sinners.There are reformed sinners, or as one preacher put it, “ex-sinners.” These are folks who will confess to some very...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Have you ever noticed that the more important a message is, the more difficult it is to put it in words that cannot be misunderstood? If we want to express our love we usually find that there are simply no words to convey our feeling. We may...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. ~Job 14:4And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. (Isaiah...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When Lazarus walked out of his tomb, freshly raised from the dead, he was yet bound hand and foot in the grave-clothes that had been his appropriate attire while dead. But grave clothes are not appropriate attire for the living, so the Lord...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Just as there were many who were appalled at him -- his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness… (Isaiah 52:14)When God would teach me of the wonders of His grace and move me to worship...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Throwing his cloak aside, [blind Bartimaeus] jumped to his feet and came to Jesus. ~Mark 10:50 In telling this story, it hardly seems necessary to include the minor fact that, as Bartimaeus jumped up to go to Christ, he cast aside his cloak....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
