Reflections
Greetings and blessings to all of you. We are past GOOD FRIDAY and unto RESURRECTION SUNDAY. AMEN!!! Do you know what that means for us? He died and was buried and HE ROSE. Why did this all have to take Place? In John 11:25-26 it says “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even though he dies and whoever lives and believes in me will never die”. Do you believe this? Let us look at some of our similarities in this verse and our new life. Do you except the fact that by Jesus dying on the cross we should be dying also? Do you believe tha...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. This has been a difficult week. We all had to learn to do things differently. At this time the Lockdown has been extended to the end of the month. But rather than focus on that let us focus on this week.. HOLY WEEK. Yeh!!!This week is a time to recall the events leading up to Jesus death and his humble entry into Jerusalem. The climate in the Middle East was in chaos. The Romans were oppressing the people of the land. The Pharisees were the political group oppressing the people with the LAWS that they interpreted as they saw fit bel...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Hope everyone is safe and healthy. I must say I am respecting this time of Lockdown. It has allowed me to respect “the gift of time”. Some people have lost their lives already because of this virus and went on to heaven or hell. But we are still here. So for me {and I hope it is for you as well} you are using this TIME wisely … “redeeming the time because the days are evil”. I could use the time to be very self- focused and do “good things” like a “good responsible person&rdquo...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. We are in a health crisis. It has unleashed a near panic in our nation. Many wonder is this the “signs of the times?” God talks about birth pains. He said there will be wars, and rumors of wars. We have them now. Check the news concerning Iran, Korea, and Russia. God said we will have pestilence. Well, we now are dealing with the coronavirus. He also said the world will suffer famine…take a look at Africa, the Caribbean and SE Asia. What about fires, floods, the prevalence of evil., the ever-increasing selfishnes...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. I have been thinking about the Simplicity of the Gospel. By definition it means “the teaching or revelation of Christ.” A stumbling block for most people is Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.” When ministering or sharing the “Good News” we must explain that by nature we are all separated from God. He is holy but we are human and do not measure up to His perfect standard. We are sinful, and “the wages of sin is death” Romans 6:23 Sharing the Gospel can become complicated when...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. I have been thinking about the right way to respond to suffering? Why? Because when I see evil and the suffering of people around the world and in our nation, I want to make sense of it. When I hear others speak of abuse, desertion, and disease my heart is saddened. I will give them the verse “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” (Romans 5:3-4) I will remind them of the verse, in I Peter 4:16 “yet if any man suffers as a Christ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. I am very grateful that I have eternal life. I am so happy I am not alienated from Christ. I have made peace with my Savior. Have you? Heb. 11:31 says, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” My sister has passed on but you and I are still here. We have an opportunity to heed to the warning. In Joshua 14-15 it says, “Now therefore fear the Lord serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served (on the other side of the River and in Egypt). Serve the Lord! And if it seems ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. A question was asked “does what we do matter to God?” The Bible says, “whatever you do… do it all for the glory of God.” Col.3:12-17 Per the Daily Bread I agree that we should ask these questions … How are we doing it, Why are we doing it and Who are we doing it for. Some of us are in bondage to harsh legalism. For example, can a Christian go to a football game on Sunday? If we say it is fine to watch a football game on TV, but we should not attend a game on Sunday then we will be caught arguin...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. We sometimes sing from the Psalms “God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble. Therefore, we will not be afraid, though the earth trembles and the mountains topple into the depths of the seas, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with its turmoil” we will trust in God’s stability. God said, “Be still and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” So, let the winds blow. Let the earth itself open beneath us. We find our refu...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. I just returned from a visit to the Midwest. I noted in my spirit a prevailing ‘emptiness’ over the city. Sometimes emptiness comes from focusing on this world and on this time. There is a “spirit of the age” in every generation in every culture. Secularism is the prevailing spirit of this age. Little attention is given to things that are above and beyond this world. Eternity is rarely considered save for a brief moment at a graveside. What counts for the secularists is the here and now. To live for the moment, for the g...
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