Recently, when reading Romans chapter 8, I realized that when man sinned and became cursed by God, the curse of death was more than spiritual and physical death. It was also a loss of purpose. The earth was also cursed. I have always lumped the earth being cursed into the Read more…
I think every child has played hide and seek at one time or another. Today, as I read Peter’s declaration and Jesus’s answer in John chapter 13, it reminded me of the childhood game hide and seek and the trigger statement that sets it all in play: “Ready or not Read more…
I was reading a Hebrew word study this morning (courtesy of an email from Chaim Ben Torah ministries), which was looking at the word translated into English as ‘gift’ with reference to the Wisemen or Magi who visited the baby Jesus. What really caught my attention however was a side Read more…
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 2:16 NLT) Amazing. I can’t tell you how many times I have read this verse. Today, it clicked for me in Read more…
There is something about the story of a man who had been blind since birth in John chapter 9 that intrigues me. The story starts with Jesus walking along and seeing a man sitting beside the road who was born blind. How do we know he was born blind? It Read more…