The Lord Is with You

Luke 1: 26-38 Two boys were walking home from church and talking about their Sunday school lesson. They were studying the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. Little Peter said to his friend John, “Do you believe that stuff about the Devil? Do you really think there is a Devil?” John looked at him and…

He Can Read Your Mail

Luke 4: 21-30 “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown.” He was not. He carried a legacy of prophets not being accepted by their own town, region, nation. When he spoke, things changed, and the things that changed were the words of approval and favor many said about him. Their…

Manifestations of God In You, Part 2

1 Corinthians 12: 4-11 The next three gifts from 1 Corinthians 12 are healing, working of miracles, prophecy. I feel the need to say I believe in the manifestations of the gifts of God in and through believers in and through the church. I believe, as Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 12:7, “To each is…

One Sunday In June (Triple Crown)

But he looked at them and said, “What then does this text mean: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone?’” — Luke 20: 17 Sunday morning as I was preparing to go with April and Anna to worship, I read what Doug Addison posted on Facebook that morning, to expect the Lord…

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While it has become my responsibility to write this down for the next generation so people not yet born will praise God and write it so the story can be told in Zion, so God’s praise will be sung . . . (Psalm 102: 18, 21 in The Message), I don’t believe the record should…