“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me.” (Matthew 11:28-29) Dear Friends – We all have had days when we feel that a heavy burden is getting the best of us and we just want to scream, enough! We are getting nowhere fast; decisions must be made, but which way to go? Relying …
“New wine is poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, The old is better.” (Luke 5:38) Dear Friends – This tagline to Christ’s parable on The Patches and Wineskins provides insight into His teaching to the Apostles that while He was the “new wine” with all His great theology, they must be like the new wineskins ready, able, and strong enough to receive His new …
Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” (Mark 12:17) Dear Friends – Christ’s statement above kept church and state separate long before any government made that decision. Elected officials may not affect in any manner, religious belief in God, however, Christians may and should by Godly conduct, moderate and affect the positive Christian behavior of politicians no differently than any other individual …
“The Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him.” (Genesis 2:18) Dear Friends – Right away, in the opening pages of The Bible, we find God discovers after creating a spectacular environment for man to live in, the material world alone would never meet man’s needs. Oh yes, Adam had food, shelter, and work to accomplish, …
“Jesus stood in their midst and said to them, Peace be with you. They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said, why are you troubled? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch Me, and see because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have. Have you anything here to eat? …
“We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God.” (2 Corinthians 1:8-9) Dear Friends – Many of us have experienced the above words of Saint Paul in some manner or another; when a burden has entered our life that …
“A person will reap only what he sows. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:7-8) Dear Friends – Experiencing consequences for one’s actions has fallen by the wayside in a secular materialistic world, but never so in God’s world. The very ones who need to …