Who we are is Who you are really! Mat. 13 – The Parable of the Sower is not what happens with soil that cannot be improved but the expected results of unattended soil. What we believe determines who we most likely will become. The Lord gives us the desire of our heart according to what and how we pray. If… Read more →

The thing you have wanted the most has taken your liveliness and the heart beat of the Church from us. An Englishman I know grew up in a very small village in Yorkshire. He says the most striking quality of the town and the thing he misses most, was the feeling of being known there. So many of us want… Read more →

It is happening now all around you. “Poets open up vistas on a world in which we live, but which, lacking their eyes, we have never seen. They discover for us the glory of the commonplace; through them we glimpse the strangeness of the familiar, the miracles of everyday. It is this combination of observation and intuition – observation plus… Read more →

Consider the locust, they say this is the year of the locust again. Scripture says, “The Locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks” (Prov. 30:27) Despite their small size and their status as pests, the locusts receive honorable mention in the Word of God. What is it about these small insects that merits such and… Read more →

II Kings 5:1-16 Naaman Healed of Leprosy 1 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. 2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had… Read more →

That’s a life changing, eternity-impacting difference. It’s the difference between someone saying to you, “Excuse me, but are you by any chance a Christian?” and “WOW! You sound just like Jesus. Who taught you that?” His Word, repeatedly running what you’ve heard through your mind eventually His thoughts become your thoughts and His ways become your ways. And then you… Read more →

Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the… Read more →