A Wonderful Life

I wonder how many of you have watched the Christmas classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life” during this Advent season.  Each December, millions of people around the world watch Frank Capra’s movie, produced just after World War 2 in 1946.  Did you know that it wasn’t a hit...

Your Deepest Point of Need

We read in Matthew 1:23, “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name ‘Immanuel’ (which means God with us).”  During this season of Advent, we acknowledge that God is with us at our deepest point of need.  Not...

The Only Adequate Response

We read in Luke 2:20, “And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.” Praising God is the only adequate response when we behold God’s goodness and when He showers His love and favor in our lives.  Is...

Offerings of Righteousness

We read in Malachi 3:3, “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.”  When the Messiah comes, He will make our offerings...

Thank you, Lord!!

How many of you have watched the movie, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?  I watched that movie often when our children were young.  One character in the Winnie the Pooh movie is Eeyore the donkey.  Do you remember him?  In contrast to Pooh, Eeyore is a...

To Love Like Jesus

What is your standard of living?  As followers of Jesus, love is to be our standard of living.  Jesus gave us the command in John 13:34, “Love one another.”  But Jesus did not stop there; he added a qualifying adverbial phrase to modify this new command.  He said,...