“As if on a particular holy day, holiday, we remember again the Lord’s miracles, God’s deeds of long ago. Why? To ignite again our faith in him. I WILL REMEMBER. I HAVE A RECORD.”
Tag: miracles
They Begged Him
Mark 7: 24-37 I love the miracles in the gospels! I love hearing them. I love reading them. I love taking stabs at teaching and preaching them. I even love hearing someone explaining away the supernatural elements and translating them into metaphorical fairy tales. But the miraculous in the gospels don’t just straighten people out….
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…
Thank You for Meeting With Us
I haven’t shared much about my family of origin. I was and remain the youngest of three offspring born to my parents in Baltimore, MD. The one essential family occurrence every week was our attendance in Christian worship. The wheres and hows are unimportant, right now. Elementary to my life was attending worship. Denominationally, we…
And, Again, Alleluia!
“There is going to Jesus in an uncertain environment and believing or taking Jesus with you into a mourning or defeated environment and believing. Be it going to him or taking him with you where you’re going, victory is had in believing, trusting in him where you find him or where you ask him to go.”
Greater Things
Way back when, in a galaxy far, far away, I was reading from the first chapter of John early one morning. I read verse 50, and it blew me up. Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.” The phrase that caught me,…
It’s Supposed to Be Easy
“Jesus does care about our hungers, but we’re not supposed to define ourselves by our hungers or hurts or scares.”
Psalm 102 in The Message 