Darkness held us hostage until love broke through. We were shadowed from the radiance of God’s glory. This is Hell’s way. It operates in subtlety. It turns on its fog machine. It surrounds us with haze, a real type of spiritual pollution that hangs in the air around us. Confusion...

In 2 Peter 1:21, Peter tells us that, “for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” This verse teaches that the human writers of the Scriptures did not receive their words by some method of dictation,...

“Behold the Lamb.” John the Baptist said this twice in the first chapter of the Apostle John’s gospel. The Apostle was a follower of the Baptist, along with his brother James and Andrew, the brother of Peter. All of these men were fishermen by trade. And then along came the...

We can know of the Holy Spirit, and we can know something of what He has done in the past, is doing in the present, and will do in the future. But do we know Him as a Person of the Trinity Who, like Jesus, is our Friend? It is...

God spoke our world into being. His Voice announced “Light.” As a result, the days of Creation began and when the Lord took His rest after six days, He saw everything as good, good, and very good. Alas, we understand today that things didn’t stay good, good, and very good....

It wasn’t much of an entrance, by the world’s standards anyway. But then God never needs much to work with. A small corner of a small room in a small town provided the setting for the arrival of the Son of God. Jesus was delivered by His mother, Mary, in...

In Genesis 46:3-4, God told Jacob that the Lord would make him a great nation, promising that He would go with Jacob and his family to Egypt and “I will surely bring you up again”. God would birth the nation of Israel beginning with the seventy of Jacob’s family as...

God made each of us for Himself. This reality is something we must embrace. For the Lord loves us and seeks to bring us into a mature, healthy relationship with Him. The book of Revelation begins with Jesus sending specific messages to seven different churches. These messages are kind of...

Jesus had a way of teaching that involved mystery. He spoke in many parables. The word pictures He employed were designed to keep people guessing. He knew the hearts of those who were present to hear Him. He understood that some were listening to Him for the wrong reasons. And...

“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead. …” (2 Timothy 2:3) Paul wrote these words to Timothy, a son in the faith to the apostle, a fellow laborer, and a brother in the Lord. This led off a series of instructions from one whose life would soon be ended by...