Hannukkah — A Festival of LIGHT to the World!”

We Gentiles (those who are not Jewish by blood) can receive much teaching from the festivals. While we are not to require anyone to observe any feast or festival, we should nevertheless pay close attention to the prophetic significance of what the feasts "prophesy" to both Jew and Gentile. In virtually every case, Jesus Christ [...]

Sheep Know Their Shepherd’s Voice

From 1928 through 1942, children in schools in America learned to know the voice of Walter Damrosch, the host of 'Music Appreciation Hour', a radio broadcast from NBC. He taught thousands of boys and girls to know and love music. Classes stopped at a certain hour, the school radio was switched on, and [...]

Hit and Run!

A few years ago, a friend started asking our Pastors and ministry leaders before the church service, if they had any prayer request we could pray for during our Sunday morning intercession group.  She quickly found out that they were starved for prayer. [@more@] Each leader not only had a pray request dealing with the ministry [...]

The Heart of Servants

A graduating student at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, had just received his appointment from the bishop.  He was grousing and grumbling because the appointment didn’t fit what he felt he deserved.  Another student, in a loving but unsympathetic way, patted him on the back and said, “You know, the world is a better [...]

Saved By Faith – But Work in Love

(Text – Matthew 25:31-46; vs 40 “…Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.”)

This is the familiar passage regarding the judgment separating the sheep (righteous) from the goats (unrighteous) that mentions their kind deeds toward others or omission [...]

The Work Which His Presence Within Accomplishes

A Study of Love

People everywhere need love. Love is growing colder every day. You can't evangelize or prophecy, or pray the prayer that heals the sick without love. But, what is love? [@more@]The definition of love mostly used in the New Testament is "agapao" which means "much". Jesus says that we are to agapao [...]