“Then, after doing all those things, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy.  Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions.  In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on servants—men and women alike.”  (Joel 2:28-29Continue Reading

For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed,  we will share in all that belongs to Christ.  (Hebrews 3:14 NLT) Let’s focus on the story of King Jesus’s birth – the Christmas story.  For many of us, this is aContinue Reading

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid,  but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” (2 Timothy 1:7 NIV) Let’s look again at the people in our Christmas story. Zechariah and Mary and Joseph – and later the Magi –  each received messages from Gabriel, some inContinue Reading

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light ofContinue Reading

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.  We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son,  who came fromContinue Reading

  “Forget the former things;     do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!     Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness     and streams in the wasteland.” – God  (Isaiah 43:18-19Continue Reading

Alluring God, Thank you for calling us to a place of rest when we are in Christ.  Thank you that while we have to “work out” our salvation, we don’t have to “work for” our salvation, because the grace of Christ has already provided for that.  Thank you that yourContinue Reading