What is influencing your thoughts, your actions, right now? Are you positive, negative, bitter, skeptical, hopeful, or joyful? I tend to find myself touching all of these different mindsets as I move through a typical week. We each are being guided, influenced by something. Media influences, TV, social media, any news outlet. Government influences. Church…
Moses left the Israelites and went up Mount Sinai for 40 days to meet with God. He received detailed instructions on building the Tabernacle and the ten commandments. While he was away, the Israelites became restless, assuming he would not return. They created a god (little g), a golden calf, and worshipped, sacrificed, and celebrated…
Ever wonder why you were created? What is your purpose in life? How do I make my life matter? Am I focused on the right things? What will my legacy be? Can I really make an impact? What is God’s will for my life? As life is flying by, those are big questions that require…
Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on…
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was…
Reading the Bible, one can’t escape core messages that Jesus emphasized and delivered to the multitudes and his disciples. These core messages may be missed if a single verse or story is delivered or interpreted on its own. However, if you look at the Bible in total, begin to lace the threads together into one,…
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that…
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For…
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment….
The Israelites have been delivered from slavery in Egypt. They have witnessed the amazing power of God as he sent the plagues to Egypt. Locusts, frogs, darkness, the river to blood. The Red Sea miracle has recently taken place. The Israelites have been given the hope of life in Canaan, the Promised Land. They are…