IF WE HAD THE SENSE THAT GOD GAVE ROCKS

Luke 19: 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” “Do we have the sense that God gave rocks?” A rude question like that is not the way I would...

THAT I MAY KNOW CHRIST

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as...

WRITTEN FOR OUR SAKES

(i Cor. 10) 1: For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same...

THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS

Luke 9: 27b: “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”28 About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the...

THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION

 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!18 All this is from God, who reconciled us...