Many times over many decades I've been lifted in a challenging time by just one verse of scripture. And I'm not alone, as an internet search will quickly reveal. Here's the verse I'm talking about, and its not even a [...]
I had been taught through the years the Bible and the gospel. But external teaching does not save. It may be fuel for the lamp of the Spirit, that is all. How does God speak then, and how do we [...]
The fourth lesson from the Great Physician is found in the stilling of the storm on the Sea of Galilee in Matthew 8:18,23-27. The same incident is also recorded in Mark 4:35-41 and Luke 8:22-25. "Now when Jesus saw a [...]
In my previous post I discussed the early ministry of Jesus in Matthew’s gospel, then jumped over the Sermon on the Mount to chapter 8, and “Lessons from the Great Physician.” The first of those lessons was based […]
Daily I am confronted with this heart cry for faith. The one in despondence seeks to find someone who can believe for him. He cannot believe for himself, and yet he has every privilege and every right in the family [...]
No, the title is not a slogan from the feminist movement but an important statement in our journey of exploration through Acts chapters 3-5. In chapter 3 Peter and John had healed the lame man in the Name of Jesus, [...]
"Such as I have give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!... and leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God" [...]
