Waves of Healing

The Three Waves of Healing

Were we to look for one verse in the Bible that could sum up the Christian perspective on healing I would choose Malachi 4:2: The sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. I would choose this verse over Isaiah 53:5, By his wounds…

Keeping Ourselves in the Love of God

But you, dear friends, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus for eternal life.

Practical Christian Living

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord…Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church…Children, obey your parents in the Lord…Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children…Slaves…render service with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men…Masters…

Standing for Christ

Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil. Ephesians 6:11

We are engaged in a spiritual, cosmic battle. We do not fight against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces of evil. The primary Christian position against the…

The Lengthening Shadow

My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass. But You, LORD, are enthroned forever…

This will be written for a later generation, a newly created people will praise the Lord…

Caring Means Sharing

If there is any encouragement in Christ … fulfill my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, sharing the same feelings, focusing on one goal. Philippians 2:1–2

Love for one another in the body of Christ comes from Christ. As we walk with Him in our faith…

Taking Sin Seriously

For know and recognize this, that no sexually immoral, impure, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God. Ephesians 5:5

God takes sin seriously and so should we. We should also keep in mind that God takes…

Love Melts Stone

…As Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word…

Ephesians 5:25–26

The standard of love in the Christian faith is the sacrificial and gracious love of Christ…

Putting on the Armor

Put on the full armor of God…Therefore, put on the full armor of God…

Ephesians 6:11

Twice the apostle commands us to put on the armor of God, emphasizing its importance. We have a determined adversary who is more than our match and in order…

The Fear of God

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge.

Proverbs 1:7a

The movement of God in our lives should get our attention.

The “Fear of the LORD” means not the fear of the unknown or the uneasiness of our consciences or…

Surrendered Speech

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 5:19–20

The Filling of the Spirit

The Filling of the Spirit

(Bone of My Bone is a study on the church body experiencing the life of Christ as a redeemed fellowship.)

The central issue for the church experience is the life of Christ existing and growing in the church…

God of the Living

He is not God of the dead but of the living…

Mark 12:27

Visiting cemeteries is an interesting experience. The brief but poignant testimonies on tombstones are often touching lessons on the meaning as well as the brevity of life. They make us…

Comfort from God

Comfort my people… Isaiah 40:1

Today I am simply referring you to a touching blog written by an associate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. His daughter, Maggie Lee Henson, was seriously injured when the bus the church young people were…

The Belt of Truth

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place…

Ephesians 6:14

The enemy is a deceiver and we are easy prey for him. A lie knows a thousand and one ways to manipulate, distort…

Our Acceptance in Christ

What is man that You remember him, the son of man that You look after him?

Psalm 8:4

Look up on a clear night and gaze at the numberless stars that stretch across the sky. Stand upon the sea shore and see the expanse of the oceans…

God Winning Our Hearts

How long will I store up anxious thoughts within me? Agony in my mind every day?

Psalm 13:2

David was under going a trial on the outside through his tribulations that caused an inner trial of his heart of doubt. We lack the ability to…

Givers or Takers?

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. And walk in love as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial, fragrant offering to God. But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for the saints. But coarse…

The Peace of Forgiveness

Happy is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalm 32:1

For a Christian to live outside of the Lordship of Christ, with un-confessed sins, with moral compromise, saps his joy and burdens his heart. Joy…

Consider the Birds

Look at the birds of the sky: they don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?

Matthew 6:26

The Lord’s words encourage us that God considers our lives important, worthy of His…

Submitting to One Another

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:21

Our servant-hearted attitude toward one another in Christ reveals our spiritual depth and condition. A strong sense of independence, protection of self-rights, an…

For All Authorities

For there is no authority except from God and those that exist are instituted by God.

Romans 13:1

The nation of Israel in the Old Testament existed under the legal code of God. They were not merely a faith but in every sense a nation whose…

Restore Our Souls

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures,
 he leads me beside quiet waters,

he restores my soul.
 He guides me in paths of righteousness
 for his name’s sake.

The Kingdom of God Has Come Upon Us

If I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Matthew 12:28, NIV

There is an evil kingdom that is present in the world. We see its influence everywhere and whoever shuts his…

God’s Opportunities

He will hide me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

Psalm 27:5b

The Lord has His ways of protecting us from disaster and trouble, ways that we would never imagine or can fully understand. David praised God that He…