Dear Friends, But a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property; with his wife’s knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. “Ananias,” Peter asked, “why has Satan filled your heart to lie to […]
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A Word of Grace – Jan 14, 2013
Dear Friends, It’s Thursday afternoon in the Loma Linda University Medical Center. I am down in the basement “A” level waiting for the staff elevator to carry me up several floors to a teleconference with a software vendor to discuss why its very expensive, top-selling program still doesn’t work for us after two years of […]
A Word of Grace – Jan 7, 2013
Dear Friends, As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. So he said, ‘A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return. He summoned ten […]
A Word of Grace – Jan 2, 2013
Dear Friends, The year is turning and it is time to move on. Our God is the Creator. Therefore our way is always forward. Our Lord is the Savior. Therefore he calls us to the future. He leads us away from the past and does not preserve it. Because our God is the Lord, confusion […]
A Word of Grace – Dec 17, 2012
Dear Friends, And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn (Luke 2:7) What if Jesus had been born in a luxurious palace surrounded by attendants and guards? What if he had been […]