What makes you a son of your father? To put it crudely, your father impregnated your mother and you are the result. That is what makes you the son of your father. You are the same bloodline. It is a biological matter. You might be adopted and loved dearly, but you are not a blood […]
One of the hardest things to do is to love, because before we know Jesus as Lord, we see love from a human perspective. Too often people see love as “what can I get out of this relationship?” Love is taking. Then for others, perhaps more so men … love is lust. It is also […]
Far too many of us never study the Bible and this is the reason we are ignorant of Biblical Truth and question expositional teaching because we don’t know what the Bible says. Then equally problematic is the fact that we might read the Bible and take our translation (in my case, English) literally. This is […]
It can never be repeated sufficiently that our Lord Jesus Christ is God and the Words He speaks are the Words of God. In verse 38 He referred backwards to the Old Testament as we saw yesterday. He said, “You have heard”, yet as we come to the next verse … He says, “But I […]
Revenge is a terrible thing! You are driving along at the right speed with the emergency lane on your left and the solid white line on your right when suddenly another vehicle approaches at a high rate of speed behind you flashing his light for you to move out of the way. Clearly he is […]
You have most likely heard people saying things like … “I swear on my mother’s grave” or “as true as God I promise you” … or variants of these. The idea is to tell someone that you are telling the truth about something and call upon your mother or God to validate your statement. In […]
As you read Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount for today, what comes to your mind as to the theme or message Jesus is wanting to convey? Mt 5:33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made […]
We are, in a devotional way, studying: Mt 5:31 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.” But … we […]
Their marriage took place around thirty years ago. I was the officiating officer. As a family they have had their fair share of illness and the wife died recently of a sudden and unexpected heart attack. I have married many couples over the years and must say that throughout all the ups and downs this […]
Friends of ours have a daughter who is married to an American. They have two children who do home schooling. The husband resigned his position of running the catering department for a huge campsite for Christian youth. Their intention is to tour America for a few months to see where they would like to settle […]