Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or lands, for My name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life… Then the King will say to those on His right: Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. (Matthew 19:29; 25:34) This post …
Our Inheritance Cannot Spoil or Fade
Those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the earth… The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care, and their inheritance will endure forever… Hope in the Lord and keep His way. He will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are destroyed, you will see it… Abraham was …
Our Imperishable Inheritance In Jesus
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23) This builds on previous posts. You can read Christ is My Inheritance; and Our Bigger Inheritance God is Faithful Thomas O. Chisholm (1866–1960) was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. He was educated …
Our Bigger Inheritance In Jesus
Lord, You alone are my portion and my cup. You make my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Surely I have a delightful inheritance… In Christ we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will. (Psalm 16:5-6; Ephesians …
Christ is My Inheritance
The Lord says: I am your share and your inheritance. So we say: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance …
Give Me That Book!
(Excerpt from teaching and training classes, used also in pastoral counseling and prison ministry. I used this first at Windsor Village Methodist Campus, then at other places. It is adapted and expanded from Wesley’s Preface to Standard Sermons.) Christ said: The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, …
Connecting the Dots
My brothers intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. (Genesis 50:20) Note: We are repeating a class at Jester III Prison called “Detours: The Unpredictable Path to Your Destiny” by Tony Evans that covers the Life of Joseph. Steve Jobs Steve Jobs (1955-2011) was a …
Haughty or Humble?
For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? (1 Corinthians 4:7 NIV) The Corinthian Problem In this part of 1 Corinthians, Jesus reminds us that He sends us out to others and we are His servants, …
The Christmas Spirit (Even in Summertime)
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. (Mark 10:45) This builds upon our previous post. You can read Jesus the Suffering Servant In his book Knowing God, J. I. Packer echoes Scripture’s teaching that Christ-like service is essential to our walk with …
Jesus the Suffering Servant
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even …