by Mathew Swora | Nov 13, 2016
2 Thess. 1: 3-43: We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,[b] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. 4 Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance...
by Mathew Swora | Oct 30, 2016
16 At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. 17 But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was...
by Mathew Swora | Oct 23, 2016
Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the...
by Mathew Swora | Oct 18, 2016
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is...
by Mathew Swora | Sep 13, 2016
John 21: 13: Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. With a simple beachfront meal of bread and grilled fish, time begins running backwards and the curse of sin, shame and death starts coming undone. Remember how, at the...
by Mathew Swora | Aug 23, 2016
Luke 13: 10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to...
