The Christmas season for me always seems so demanding! There are gifts to buy and parties to attend. If you’re even a little like me, every year, the budget and calendar gets squeezed to the max! Yet, I believe that in addition to all these demands, the Christmas season is loaded with lots of opportunities. There is opportunity to have real meaningful…

I was listening to people recently talk about all of the warnings they were hearing about financial disaster and hard times coming to America. They were discussing how to prepare for survival: storing up food, obtaining guns, etc. I’ve heard and thought about these things often – I did the Y2K thing of preparing for the worst. But these days I just…

Psalm 1:1-3 tells us the blessedness of the one that immerses himself in the Word of God: Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked, Or stand in the way that sinners take, Or sit in the company of mockers, But whose delight is in the law of the LORD, And who meditates on his law day…

In John 6:63-64, Jesus tells His followers, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.”  He had just said some “difficult” things and some of the people were grumbling about it. Some even decided at that point…

We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. Romans 3:22 I saw yesterday that Time has put out their list of the 100 most influential people for 2017. You may not be surprised, but I wasn’t on the list. What was surprising is some…

You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. Acts 3:15 Have you ever really thought about the death and resurrection of Jesus? Why does the resurrection even matter? Jesus was miraculously conceived. He was born of a virgin. He did not inherit the sin nature of an earthly father. He was completely…

When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw [Jesus] eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mark 2:16-17…

Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 We live today in what I would call a very spirituality pluralistic society. In other words, tolerance is a really high value and it’s very common today for many people to believe things like: All roads really lead to…

Recently I was reading the passage in Matthew 25 where Jesus separates the sheep from the goats at the final judgment? It’s a very familiar story and it even brings back memories of my high school performance of Godspell, where we crawled around the floor “baa-ing and goating” (not sure what goats sound like). As I read the passage this time, I…

John 4 contains a fascinating dialogue between Jesus and a Samaritan woman. Having surprised her by recounting some of her own life story, Jesus began to teach her about the true nature of worship. He then said “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the…