Be Transformed as your Mind is Renewed to Grace & Truth
Weekly Encouragement – January 26, 2020 Greetings Friend, I recently sat with a group of mostly Christians and I asked, “Is God pleased with you this week?” How would you answer that question? The answers from the group were varied, but most were based …Read More…
Greetings Friend, “Consider it all Joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials (temptations – KJV), knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” (James 1:2-4) …Read More…
Greetings Friend, Does Holy Spirit of God dwell in you?If you’re saved, He does. “For whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”(Romans 10:13) So, here’s the Encouragement: “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, …Read More…
Greetings Friend, “and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.” (Romans 4:21) Do you know the story? God said that Abraham and his wife Sarai were going to have a son. Now look at this: “Without …Read More…
Greetings Jesus said, “Pray, then, in this way…Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.” (Matthew 6:9-10) Have you ever considered; that’s exactly what God made available at that first Christmas? Jesus the King brought His Kingdom with Him when …Read More…
Greetings There were a couple of guys walking home on Sunday talking about the crucifixion of Jesus they had witnessed a few days earlier; they were expressing their sadness and disappointment because they were hoping this Jesus was the Messiah. They had seen Him …Read More…
Greetings When Jesus was Crucified: “even the rulers were sneering at Him, saying, ‘He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One.’” (Luke 23:35) “The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine and saying, ‘If You are the King …Read More…
Greetings, “And He [Jesus] withdrew from them about a stone’s throw away, and He knelt down and began to pray, ‘Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.’” (Luke 41-42) Have you ever …Read More…
Greetings “And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins. And He said, ‘Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all of them…she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.’” (Luke 21:2-4) …Read More…
Greetings Scribes and Chief Priests were going after Jesus and they sent spies who asked, “Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”(Luke 20:22) You probably know the story, Jesus knew they were trying to trick Him, and He said, “‘Show …Read More…
Greetings, “I was afraid of you because you are an exacting (hard; tough; severe; harsh; austere) man;” (Luke 19:21) This is from a parable of a master who gave money to his servants for them to do business with while He was away. One …Read More…
Greetings, If Cheryl and I ever start a church, we’re going to call it “Children’s Church”. “And they were bringing even their babies to Him so that He would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they began rebuking them. But Jesus …Read More…
Greetings, “The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith!’ And the Lord said, ‘If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.’” (Luke 17:5-6) …Read More…
Greetings, “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.” (Luke 16:16) The Kingdom of God! – Jesus said, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 4:17) True Christianity requires …Read More…
Greetings, “Now all the tax collectors [men with authority to cheat the people] and the sinners were coming near Him [Jesus] to listen to Him.” (Luke 15:1) Religious people don’t like that very much. “Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying …Read More…
Greetings, Jesus asked, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” (Luke 14:3) Jesus was so not politically correct. He was, and is, Truth. On this Sabbath day, Jesus was in the very house of a religious leader along with some of his religious friends, …Read More…
Greetings, “There was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.” (Luke 13:11) I recently had a conversation with a church leader in which I …Read More…
Greetings, “I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; not for your body, as to what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.” (Luke 12:22-23) What is the “more than food” that …Read More…
Greetings, I hope you have been reading the chapter each day and listening to what the Lord is saying specifically to you as you read. If you have, then I KNOW you have been blessed. Please share some of those blessings with me and I will …Read More…
Greetings, One of the things I’ve been trying to say with these Encouragements is that True Christianity has us looking like Jesus. He sends His disciples out to demonstrate His Kingdom; Heal the sick, Raise the dead; Cast out demons. We see it in …Read More…