November 19, 2011
I am Elizabeth, wife of Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist. I am also the cousin to Mary, mother of Jesus, my Lord. My husband and I were both descendants of Aaron the first Priest of our Hebrew people.…
November 13, 2011
One day, in the winter of the year, I was interrupted doing my household chores. I had many things to do. My parents had made arrangements for me to marry Joseph, the carpenter. He was quite a bid older than…
November 9, 2011
My name is Zechariah. It means, “The Lord has remembered me.” Indeed, He has heard my prayers. Among my people, it was disgraceful not to have children. No one would be around to take care of us when we no…
November 5, 2011
We do, quite often, insist that we are not like Jesus; namely, divine and human. Jesus distinctly lived and acted in every way as a human being (Heb.4: 15). Until His departure time He referred to Himself as the Son…
November 1, 2011
Mark, the Evangelist, tells us that it was Jesus who was amazed at the people’s lack of faith (Mk.6: 6). Jesus went home to share with His people the marvelous things God was going to do for them through one…
October 28, 2011
The people in Jesus’ day were living in the presence of Immanuel and refused to believe it. What God was doing for them was far greater than what happened to David, Jonah and to Solomon. Four times Jesus used the…
October 25, 2011
News is disturbing and so are the interpretations regarding of our time. Every generation has faced difficulties that wished that Christ were on his way back. In Jesus’ own days, He had to correct His followers, “At that time if…
October 21, 2011
The assumption that Proverbs 29: 18 was about a vision is incorrect. What the people needed was a leader that understood the law of God. The King James Bible has: “Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he…
October 17, 2011
Moses complained, “But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear” (Deut.29: 4). This was after the miraculous deliverance from Egyptian slavery. Moses came to the conclusion…
October 13, 2011
We were about to receive communion, when our pastor reminded us that we had to be right with the Lord in order to be worthy participants. He stressed a personal relationship with Jesus. When I was an active pastor, I,…