“Think about how God has set up His salvation. He created us to give glory and honor to Him to the end that all might come to Him. But God did not create robots did He? No, He also implanted free will so that whoever returned to the Father might do it on his or her own…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Tag Archives: Jesus
I Know In Whom I Believe
“Did you catch that portion of the Letter to Timothy? The part that intimated that Paul was in prison? Paul finds himself in trouble and yet he still writes these letters to support a younger church leader….” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
First of all, then, I urge that supplications be made for everyone…
“Remember the teenage years? How about this, ‘As long as you live in this house, you will follow these rules.’ If these words were part of our growing up, we may regard them as simply when the alpha person in our home laid down the rules….” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Jesus Came To Save Sinners
“These are the words that Rite 1 congregations hear just after the priest pronounces God’s absolution for our sins. There is such comfort in these words. As we have been moving through the Epistles we have been noting that this literature contains a lot of instruction…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Forgiveness
“The slave, Onesimus, has done the unthinkable. He has stolen his master’s valuables and run off. Somehow or another the slave and Paul meet up and during their time together, Onesimus has been converted. The slave is now a believer in our Lord Jesus…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
People of Fear, God of Grace
“Our reading from the letter to the Hebrews would have snapped the attention of the original readers. While one mountain is mentioned explicitly, the other would have been known simply by the language used to describe it. The mountain of fear would have instantly been recognized as Mt. Sinai…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Power For Drooping Hands
“Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet. Today the writer of this letter to the Hebrews is talking about life – real life and today we get an up close and personal glimpse of what the Christian life looks like. It is all here: sin, faith, training, testing, and our Lord.” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for…
“In the letter to the Hebrews we come to the first full stop in the lives of many Christians. Think of the faith walk that each of us are individually on. We understand that God is always reaching for us first but let’s face it, at some point we all will or have had some horrible event that calls our faith into question. And here lies the cross-road for Christians.” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Put on, then, as God’s chosen ones…
“Put on, then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved …compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another… Recently we talked about how to be mature in Christ. St. Paul gave us the sense that believers should actually be holy… blameless…irreproachable.” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Jesus Nailed Our Sin To The Cross
“This, He set aside, nailing it to the Cross. Today, Paul is replying to the thought that there are some sins outside the power of our Lord Jesus to forgive. But before we dig into this portion of Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae, perhaps we should spend just a bit of time reminding ourselves of the reason Jesus came to us.” — Listen here, or download the MP3!