1 Corinthians 1: 7 [S]o that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Imagine that it is your birthday. The dining room table is decorated beautifully and upon it you see a good-looking cake with your name on it, but that’s not all. The table is […]
John 17: 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. You know, when I read this recently it gave me pause. We have a lot of ideas about what eternal life means. I think, though, that some of our ideas are […]
Isaiah 40: 3 A voice is calling, “Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness.” John the Baptist was the one prophesied that would be the voice of one crying out in the wilderness to make ready the way of the Lord. This Old Testament passage foretold the coming Messiah and his herald. Now the […]
John 3: 36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. I’ve said it before – Christianity is more than the one time utterance of a salvation prayer. When Jesus went to the cross […]
1 John 3: 6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. Christians make a big deal about sin. It is kind of interesting really that people who have been redeemed from sin would be so sin conscious. But look, Jesus has solved the sin problem […]
Ezekiel 33: 11 “Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live.’” God isn’t into punishment. He is into salvation. He desires that none should perish. That is why He sent His Son, […]
Psalm 98: 3 NIV He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. God has not forgotten His first love; the house of Israel. He is faithful to Israel even today. Israel was the seed that was supposed […]
