Monthly Archives: November 2019

“That’s why, as long as that promise of entering God’s rest remains open to us, we should be careful that none of us seem to fall short ourselves. Those people in the wilderness heard God’s good news, just as we have heard it, but the message they heard didn’t do them any good since it wasn’t combined with faith.   We who believe are entering into salvation’s rest, as He said, ‘That is why I swore in anger they would never…..

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“Be ready to do whatever is good and honorable… Be peaceable and considerate, and always be gentle towards everyone.” (Titus 3:1). Who we are matters.   Who we are becoming is dependent upon our day to day choices and following actions.  Therefore, all our actions matter.  The choices we are making throughout every day is creating who we are becoming. It is building character in us. It matters how we handle conflict with someone and how we treat them.   Are we…..

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“Beloved ones, listen to this instruction. Open your heart to the revelation of this mystery that I share with you. A parable and a proverb are hidden in what I say— an intriguing riddle from the past… They [their fickle fathers, a stubborn, rebellious generation] refused to love Him [God] with all their hearts. Take, for example, the sons of Ephraim. Though they were all equipped warriors, each with weapons, when the battle began they retreated and ran away in…..

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According to the account in John 5:5-6, “There was a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years lying among the multitude of the sick [at the pool called in Aramaic: The House of Loving Kindness].  When Jesus saw him lying there, he knew the man had been crippled for a long time.  So Jesus said to him, ‘Do you truly long to be healed?’” Bible Commentary notes that the Greek phrase genesthai is not future tense but something already…..

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