From Grace: For the Moment –A book by Max Lucado It’s quiet. It’s early. My coffee is still hot. The sky is still black. The world is still asleep. The day is coming. In a few moments the day will arrive. It will roar down the track with the rising of the sun. The stillness of the...
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Dec
29
2016
I’ve heard it said that you can learn a lot about a person by listening to him pray. That is certainly true of Jesus as we read through his prayer to the Father in John chapter 17. Let’s take a look. In this magnificent passage, Jesus reveals a great deal about His relationship to the Father...
Dec
8
2016
Late in His ministry, as Jesus sees things falling into place for the final victory in His death, burial, and resurrection He says this: “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone;...
Dec
2
2016
Near the end of John chapter ten and the beginning of chapter eleven, Jesus deliberately lets a dear friend die and is about to lead his disciples into mortal danger. Understandably, the disciples are really having a hard time understanding all of this. When we look deeper, we see that their problem is this: They just...
Nov
23
2016
The Gospel of John captures the long prayer that Jesus prayed before his disciples in the upper room at the last supper before His arrest. In that prayer He makes this remarkable request: I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am...
Nov
18
2016
I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart! Psalm 119:32 The movie, “The Last of the Mohicans” opens with three men running through a dense forest at top speed. They have been hunting down a deer and they are trying to get within killing range of it. Every time I...
Nov
11
2016
There’s an interesting journey described in the following verses from Psalm 119: Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word. . . . It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. . . . I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and...
Nov
4
2016
God speaks the creation into existence We are all familiar with the creation account in Genesis chapter one. Notice how many times it explicitly tells us what God spoke: 3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. . . . 6And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the...