What does Independence Day mean to you? We honor our currently serving service people as well as all veterans. We have cookouts and fireworks. For many of us it is about food and family. Let us not forget, however, that this holiday is a celebration of our liberation from Colonial Great Britain and while […]
Matthew 21: 43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.” This discussion on bearing fruit is an important one. It is quite easy for us to slide into complacency as regarding our faith. With the weight and […]
Hebrews 5: 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. It is so easy to end up right here, still requiring the milk of […]
2 Samuel 10: 2 – 3 But when David’s servants came to the land of the Ammonites, the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David is honoring your father because he has sent consolers to you? Has David not sent his servants to you in order to search […]
Matthew 12: 33 Voice Translation Good trees produce good fruits; bad trees produce bad fruits. You can always tell a tree by its fruits. This is not a farming tip today, though I guess it is a good thing to know. Actually, Jesus spoke this verse in teaching that our […]
2 Samuel 17: 2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and exhausted and will terrify him so that all the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king alone. What does this have to do with our present day existence, you may ask. I have […]
1 Samuel 25: 6 Have a long life, peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. Our Jewish siblings greet each other with “Shalom.” In this, apparently, simple greeting is a mountain of blessing. It is the essence of today’s verse. King David sent messengers […]
