Making Friends for God

Jesus was a master at dealing with people. By both His words and actions, He demonstrated acceptance. He listened sensitively to their concerns, raised questions, and gradually revealed divine truths. He recognized the inner longing in the most hardened hearts and saw...

Love is the Answer

Do you ever marvel at the powerful points of teaching that Jesus sometimes packed into a short ‘sermon’? There is one such illustration that I would like to consider that is found in Matthew 22:34-40. This is actually the reply that Jesus gave to the Pharisees when...

Avoiding Self Deception

Walking with Jesus on The Mount of Blessing Devotional by George R. Knight (December 15) Those condemned by Jesus in Matthew 7:21~23 are suffering from self-deception. They thought they were right, but they were wrong – seriously wrong. This is frightful. You may be...

Happy Father’s Day

Pastor Phil Robertson This weekend we celebrate Father’s Day. We know this day as a special time to reflect on the meaning and blessing of having, and being, fathers. Some of us have wonderful memories of the value and blessing of an earthly father while some of us...

The Faith I Live By

Page 333 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. Joel 2:23. Under the figure of the...

Nehemiah, The Lord’s Choice

Nehemiah 4:1-24, (KJV) But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they...