Do you sometimes feel that as you were going through life, you made some mistakes or bad choices, and that it is so hard to get on the right path that you just might as well throw the towel in? Let me tell you, as I read the Scriptures, as I observe the power of Jesus in other people’s lives and esp
It’s funny how we, as people, see things differently. Some people see God as mean and angry, full of vengeance and others see God, as Jesus revealed Him…as loving, wise, kind and wanting the best for mankind. Indeed, in Jesus’ day, the people expected a warrior Messiah that would o
Jesus was a rabbi, unlike any other rabbi. Other rabbi’s separated themselves from the world, from sinners, in order to remain undefiled. Jesus did not separate Himself from the world…..He lived among the people! I always found it curious that when Jesus called His disciples, He simply
Leprosy is a scourge of a disease and it is deadly! In the Gospel of Mark we see a man with leprosy and the first big thing that sticks out to me is that he knows that he has the inability to cure himself. This man asks Jesus to cure Him. We all have a sort of leprosy…it’s called “
As we wind up Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount concerning divorce, I need to point out that Jesus specializes in mending broken lives–and yes, even those fractured by divorce. Notice God’s attitude toward failure: He never asked how they got into trouble, He knows. He never lea
As Christians, indeed, as followers of Jesus Christ, we have a few choices as we face ANY sin in our life: We can bury our sin, hide it and become self-righteous, or we can give in to the sin and simply accept it in our life. We give up on the battle and we basically create a chasm between us and Go