Dear Friends, Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord will only a few be saved”. He said to them, “Strive to enter the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter but won’t be able” (Luke 13:22-24). We
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A Word of Grace – July 8, 2013
Dear Friends, He said to them, “When I sent you out without a purse, bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “No, not a thing” He said to them, “But now, the one who has a purse must take it, and likewise a bag. And the one who has no sword must sell
A Word of Grace – July 1, 2013
Dear Friends, As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes” (Luke 19:41-42). Jesus is a realist. He is reduced to a warm fuzzy blur by all of the heart-tugging
A Word of Grace – June 24, 2013
Dear Friends, All to Jesus, I surrender; Humbly at His feet I bow, Worldly pleasures all forsaken; Take me, Jesus, take me now. — Judson W. Van DeVenter, 1896 “Go south to the road — the desert road — that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza” (Acts 8:26, NIV). That’s what the Angel of the
A Word of Grace – June 10, 2013
Dear Friends, The next two messages are meditations on the patriarch Enoch whose story is briefly told in Genesis 5:18-24 and whose faith is commended in Hebrews 11:5-6). When Enoch was 65, he fathered Methuselah. He started walking with God then and kept on for another 300 years during which he fathered other sons and