Changing … Improving …Letting God Change My Life ME in 2018 New Year’s Resolutions rarely work because we can’t ever really do everything we plan to do, or be all we hope to be. We are human, prone to failure. The things we want to do we don’t do, and…
When I hear celebrities on TV, and even many in the church, people who know Jesus, as they attempt to define Christmas, I wonder where this definition comes from, and I think to myself, “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” Most definitions go something like this,…
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you. 7 Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces.”
Disappointed? Let down? Shattered expectations? Brokenhearted? There is HOPE! Messiah didn’t come the first time as His people expected… Israel wanted a King. They expected deliverance. But it didn’t happen that way – and the people were disappointed, because they missed this part of the prophecy. “With a rod they…
The older I get, the more I realize that Christmas is not a day, but the culmination of a month of anticipation and reflection. Growing up in “independent” churches, that had moved away from mainstream denominations, my churches also became “independent” from many of the traditions of the historic early…
