God Has Come Near Us: A Christmas Message

As I was getting ready for my two Christmas Eve services, one of my daughters asked me: “Dad, why is it that we read the same stories during the Christmas Eve service?” She asked me that question because I had given her two short Biblical stories about Christ’s birth she had to help me read […]

The Book of Hebrews: Living by Faith

This article is the last reflection in the series, The Book of Hebrews. It covers the last three chapters of the book: 11 through 13.  Here’s how I’d divide the entire book.  First, the author of the book makes the point of who Jesus is, in chapters 1 through 10.  Remember the letter was originally […]

The Book of Hebrews: Moving Toward Maturity

Here’s the third part of our series, The Book of Hebrews. In this post, we’ll focus on Hebrews 5:11 through 6:3, About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to […]

The Book of Hebrews: Approach The Throne

This article is the second in our series, The Book of Hebrews, and primarily focuses on chapter 4.  The previous post talked about chapter 1, Jesus’ identity. Before delving into chapter 4, let me first help you get a sense of chapters 2 and 3.  That way, you will see how these chapters build on […]

The Book of Hebrews: Jesus’ Identity

The letter to the Hebrews is such a powerful letter I wish every Christian should read. It clarifies the purpose of the law and how it makes sense through Jesus Christ. We will look at this book from the Bible for the next few weeks. The way the author writes this book tells that the […]

Hope for the Doubter

In this article, we’ll reflect on “hope for the doubter.” Before delving into it, I would encourage you first to take a look at what we’ve studied previously:   Hope for the weary Hope for the broken   The foundation for our reflection through this article comes out of Jeremiah 29:11-13, For I know the […]

Hope for the Broken

My previous article in the series, “Hope is here,” talked about how to find hope when we feel weary. In the following lines, we’ll reflect on the second part addressing our brokenness and how we can find hope again.  Let me ask you first to take a look at this scripture, which we will use […]

Hope for the Weary

This series of articles is about hope and how we can find it again in case we’ve lost it. In this specific article, we will look at “hope for the weary” as stated in the title of this post. The scripture we will use to help us comes from Matthew 11:28-30,   Come to me, […]

Freedom

So far, in our series about Biblical words that begin with the letter “F,” we’ve talked about: Faith. Fear. Forgiveness.   Today, we’ll reflect on “Freedom,” what it means and how we can acquire it according to the Bible. To help us with that, we’ll use John 8. I encourage you to read the entire […]

On Forgiveness

The third Biblical word beginning with the letter “F” is forgiveness. What you’ll discover though is that forgiveness builds on faith and fear, the other two words beginning with the letter “F,” I discussed previously. For the sake of our reflection, I encourage you to read Luke 15, even though we will only focus on […]