INTRODUCTION There is often more truth packed into a short pithy statement📄 than there is in an entire book 📘. Nuggets of gold 🔶 worth far more than libraries with many volumes 📗📘📙📒📓📕. Word brokers📚 are a dime a dozen, but truth conveyors 🎯 are in short supply. Arrows that go directly deep into the […]
INTRODUCTION Yes it is true, and to many it is life’s greatest conundrum: “SOME VERY BAD THINGS 😢 DO HAPPEN TO SOME VERY GOOD PEOPLE 😊 .” They don’t seem to be as troubled by the opposite, “SOME VERY GOOD THINGS 😁HAPPEN TO SOME VERY BAD PEOPLE 😡.” (If you read the Psalms, the Psalmist […]
“JESUS IS THE TRUE LIGHT 🌕THAT LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMES INTO THE WORLD 🌎.” (John 1:9) INTRODUCTION There is no season of the year that lights up 🌕 the landscape ♍and the hearts 💓 of men 👷, women 👮, and children🙅 as the celebration of a tiny baby boy 🚼 born in Bethlehem over […]
More than de-LIGHT-ful it is that all the colors of Christmas lights are ablaze each time Christmas is celebrated around the world. No different this year December 25, 2020. Not even a PANDEMIC and over 330,000 dead Americans can dim the Christmas 🎆 lights 🌕🌕🌕. Truly an amazing phenomenon indeed! Long ago there used to […]
THE CHRISTMAS BARN DOOR It is the simplest and yet most profound way of saying that it never happened before, and that it would never happen again. It is the wonder of wonders that it happened at all! Heaven is now open to sinners 😥! The one and only open door 🚪 to Heaven has […]
We have just celebrated Christmas. The lights are still up in our house, and the Christmas carols are still playing. We generally keep our Christmas tree 🌳up for several weeks after Christmas. It’s such a uplifting and cheery sight, so we kind of hate to take it down. It is still Christmas in our home. […]
My childhood Christmases I can say we’re nothing short of magical! It was a WINTER WONDERLAND in Holland, Michigan. Still is! Christmas and snow were synonyms. We not only dreamed of a White Christmas, we lived it each year. Michigan was way ahead of Ervin Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS. Oh yes, there was the real Christmas […]
I don’t know what Jesus looked like. I have often wondered, but I really don’t have a clue. There are no strong hints in the Bible about Jesus’ countenance, build, shape, height, weight, or anything else. I think the Holy Spirit wanted it that way. What He looked like was irrelevant, but Who He was […]
Bloodline, ancestry, and roots mean a great deal to the sophisticated and the upper crust of societies. To be able say that you are from the Rockefellers or the Kennedys is an immediate feather in your Stetson, and a huge boost to the ego. I am reminded of the film Titanic when drifter Jack Dawson […]
Well, here we are again. This will be my dear wife’s and my 72nd Christmas on earth. I am so enjoying already all of the multi-colored lights that she has arranged around the house and in the windows to brighten the darkness inside and outside. It truly is another Christmas Festival of Lights in the […]
We shall be dealing with at length the Christmas truths found in Philippians 2:5-9. But first, Christians, and particularly Christian ministers, are exactly what I Corinthians 4:1 tells us we are, and that is: “STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD.” Neither pastor or parishioner can afford to forget this basic truth: “THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN FAITH […]
We have come to a pivotal point in our Christmas exposition of Philippians 2:5-6 that is central in this entire awesome passage. We touched on it last time, but we must grasp it more firmly in our minds and hearts. It is the transitional statement in Philippians 2:7, “But emptied Himself.” This begins the series […]