“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever ...
Read More »The Helper Will Come
“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; But you know Him, for ...
Read More »The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: It Has Started
“He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.” I Corinthians 15:4 He walked through the grave aglow with resurrection power. Three days before, He had bowed His head and declared, “It is finished.” Now, it had started. What was finished? Just ...
Read More »Sequences
Ever encountered sequences? Occasionally, I’ve heard them personified as Murphy’s Law. I don’t remember ever hearing a term applied to that pesky situation when the one thing you want to do is barely out of reach behind numerous (often spontaneous) “urgent” predecessors, until my type-A grandfather coined the term (at ...
Read More »Good Friday–What’s Good About it?
It’s Good Friday, but it doesn’t seem like a lot of good happened on this day nearly 2000 years ago. Jesus died that day; a Man without sin. His only crime?–trying to teach His people how to follow God’s Law. He was shunned by His own people (John 19:15), and ...
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