Messages of Faith

Nearly every week, as I think about what to write, I stop at Matthew 7:21—23. Jesus has been teaching the people about what it means...

This coming Sunday, I’m getting baptized. This might surprise you, so let me explain. Jesus rescued me from an eternity in hell about...

What are you doing with your time? I thought about this some this week because I’ve had a cold and was stuck laying on the couch...

You  know, I didn’t always believe in Jesus in a saving way. In my “pre-believing” days, I would sometimes worry about whether or not I...

As we sat down to our morning study, the Lord blessed us with just the right text: a message of peace, spoken by Jesus: “Peace I leave...

You know, God doesn’t consult with us about what we will find believable or not. God works according to His will. He works wondrous deeds...

No matter where you are, where you go, or what you do, God sees and knows all. There was a prophet that learned this truth the hard way.

In this parable, Jesus’s point is how wrong people can be about whether they are right with God or not.

Do you know the story of Zacchaeus? I remember singing a song about him as a kid. He was a rich tax collector. And he was hated.

Again and again, Jesus taught that He is the Son of God and that He, Jesus, was sent by God the Father into the world.

Last week, we read about Jesus’s birth. This week, we jump ahead a year or maybe even two years, to the time of the wise men’s visit...

Jesus’s arrival on earth was announced to some shepherds by an angel—because of course, Jesus was no ordinary baby.

I love the story of Jesus’s birth. The angel, Gabriel, came to Mary and told her she would have a son by the Holy Spirit...

You know, Jesus worked so hard to make it clear to people when He was here on earth who He was.

It’s good to have someone tell you you’re headed in the wrong direction, right? Well, it should be. But people usually don't like being...

Jesus walked out of the temple and encountered a man that had been born blind. The man didn’t ask to be healed of his blindness.

Back in August, I was diagnosed with stage-4 pancreatic cancer. That wasn’t something I had expected—it never occurred to me that I might...

These ten have one thing in common: they’re all sick. Really sick. They have leprosy, a horrible and deadly disease.

After He finished teaching, Jesus came down from the mountain, healed a leper, healed a paralyzed servant, healed Peter’s mother-in-law...

The Bible tells us that God knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). This means God knows everything that will happen.