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
Devotional
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
A Word of Grace – June 3, 2013
Dear Friends, This is part two of a two-part series on how and when to fight the good fight with particular attention to David’s decisive battle against Goliath described in 1 Samuel 17. I am giving you these instructions, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following
A Word of Grace – May 28, 2013
Dear Friends, This is the first message in a two-part series on how to know when it’s time to stand for the right with particular attention to David’s confrontation with Goliath recorded in 1 Samuel 17. I am giving you these instructions, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so