Wisdom, Let Us Attend “Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance.” Wisdom 2:19 It’s only one more week till Good Friday, a day which no doubt is one of our high holy days as disciples of Jesus. We …
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The Greatest Force In All the World
The Greatest Force In the World Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35 NRSV Go ahead. Let your imagination run wild. I guarantee you won’t be able to think of anything so powerful, or so horrific …
The Beauty of the Ashes: A Change of Position
Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Psalm 95:6 Repentance is a major theme of the season of Lent. One of the best ways for me to show my repentance before God is to change my position. Yes, I mean literally change my position before Him. …
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Holy Land Pilgrimage 2017 – Day 3
Today has been a great day filled with deep spiritual experiences from the Sea of Galilee, Caesarea Philip in the Golan Heights, Kursi where Jesus healed the Demoniac, and Baptisms in the Jordan River. Our wifi is slower tonight and making video uploads more difficult. However, I have updated the picture gallery for you to …
Holy Land Pilgrimage 2017 – Day 2
We began today by visiting the ruins of the ancient city of Caesarea by the Sea. The city was built by King Herod to honor Caeser the Roman Emperor, and to be the seat of Roman power in Palestine. We spent time in the Roman theater, and Hippodrome as well as the ruins of Herod's …
Preparing for Pilgrimage
Here are some thoughts I have while preparing for our Holy Land Pilgrimage next week. Follow along with us next week as I share thoughts from our Holy Land experience. Shalom! Pastor Brad
Preparing for Pilgrimage
Here are some thoughts I have while preparing for our Holy Land Pilgrimage next week. Follow along with us next week as I share thoughts from our Holy Land experience. Shalom! Pastor Brad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecsY8m5drK4
A Very Merry Adoption
Day 16 A Countdown to Listening to Jesus in the land of the Bible And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no …
What, No Food?
Day 25 A Countdown to Listening to Jesus in the land of the Bible Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” … Jesus said to them, “I am fed by doing the will of the one who sent me and by completing his work. John 4:32,34 CEB Unfortunately, …
What Will You Bring to the Pool?
Day 26 A Countdown to Listening to Jesus in the land of the Bible A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, knowing that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” John 5:5-6 CEB Think …
