by ray | Apr 30, 2009 | Reflections
3 John 1:9-11. ” 9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. 10 Soif I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcomethe...
by ray | Apr 30, 2009 | Reflections
2 John 1: 4-6. 4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this...
by ray | Apr 7, 2009 | Easter, Reflections, Topical Studies
We had a discussion yesterday about the meaning of Easter. Most people think of Easter in terms of our sin and Jesus’ passion, how Christ suffered on the cross to cleanse us from our sins. In my experience, cultivating a penitent heart has always been my focal...
by ray | Mar 11, 2009 | Reflections
Psalm 46:10 – “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” In an average day, we are bombarded with 3,000 messages a day. We are glued to our crackberries. Our computers...
by ray | Jan 15, 2009 | Reflections
Jesus identifies 2 types of believers in this passage where an official’s son is healed in Galilee. First, you have those who look for miraculous signs. Unless they see or witness external, visible, miraculous events, they will not believe. The...
by ray | Jan 15, 2009 | Reflections
In this passage, Jesus angrily clears the temple because his Father’s house of prayer had been turned into a marketplace. A place where there ought to be worship and surrender and devotion to God had been intermixed with non-religious activities such as...
