What Do You See? Opening our spiritual eyes.
With sin-filled eyes, we cannot see God as He truly is. They now saw God through distorted lenses and created a harsh God of their own imaginings. It’s what we do. He will open our spiritual eyes.
Bible reading
Resolve to be more Christ like
One source puts it this way, “Becoming more like Christ is the desire of every believer, and it is encouraging to know that God has the same desire for us. In fact, the Bible says that God “predestined [believers] to be conformed to the likeness of his Son” (Romans 8:29). Making us Christlike is God’s work, and He will see it through to the end (Philippians 1:6).”
Silent Night – Only it wasn’t – the heaven’s rejoiced
It’s beautifully simple, a classic favorite. The tune portrays a serene, quiet scene on the night of Jesus’ birth.
The problem is that night would have been anything but quiet.
Who were the heavenly host on the first Christmas
Who or what was this heavenly host that appeared with the angel?
Called to right beliefs and right living
There isn’t a church group or a Christian alive who hasn’t got at least some part of the picture wrong. Still we are called to both right beliefs and right living
The Fallout – the Bethlehem massacre
In the last of our three-part series about the wise men who visited Christ, we look at the fallout from their visit.
Christmas – Kings or Wise men?
This morning, I was in Matthew 2, “The Visit of the Wise Men.” It’s a passage that fulfills prophecy and is prophetic in itself, but is often misunderstood.
Small Blessings – Ordinary Life
Someone once said that God must like ordinary things because He made so many of them. There is some truth in that statement.
Unpleasant Endings – the hard questions about hell
Then my friend asked the question that was really on his mind, “How can a good and loving God send people to hell?”