“For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him” (Isaiah 53:2). “… Can there any good thing come...
“And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey His Voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go” (Exodus 5:2). Enough! That was the message of the Lord to Pharaoh when the ruler of Egypt refused to see the dark. God had...
Genesis 4 reveals to us just how fast darkness descended upon the human heart. Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and felt “dead” in their spirits right away. And yet God came to them. He also instituted the pattern of sacrifice. The...
“… We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10). God the Son became Man. It stands as one of the mysteries of Christianity and of all of human history. Jesus had to take on flesh and bone. He became like us in...
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. What can wash me white as snow? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. This is the primary point presented throughout the letter to the Hebrews. The writer set up his argument for this truth by establishing the reality...
“Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession” (Hebrews 3:1). Hebrews 3 begins with reproof. This word, when we hear it or read it, usually takes our mind to thoughts of correction or discipline. Reproof is not a word that is...
Darkness and Light. At war as never before. Evil meets good. Face to face. The world of lies against the Man of Grace and Truth. This is what comes to us in John 19. We have arrived at the climax of the Gospel records. The accounts related in the pages...
Water. Bread. Blood. To me, it makes sense that the Lord used these to paint a picture of His salvation work in the world that He loves and cares for. These things are the primary stuff of human existence. They are the base things, the fundamental elements. These staples of...
A lot gets said about the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay. We really make quite a to-do about the Christmas story with its manger. And well we should. Christmas comes during a season when it’s colder and darker. We enjoy the proclamation of the Light of God entering...
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb! Oh the blood of Jesus — it will never lose it’s power. Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power, are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Would you be free from your burden of sin? There is...
