Nicodemus was a man of the Bible and a teacher in Israel. He saw and heard of Jesus. He ventured out of his world among the religious ones to speak to the Savior for himself. You might say it is because of what this man did one evening that we...

We, the Body of Christ, are the Lord's Bride-in-waiting; what are to be thinking, doing, as we wait for our Day? How do we best prepare for our Wedding with the King of kings? We increasingly become occupied with HIM, with His thoughts toward us, with what He's like, with...

“The voice of my beloved! lo, this—he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills”  (Song of Solomon 2:8) When last had we leapt or jumped or even skipped? Buoyant as a bird or gazelle comes a jumping someone, in our allegorical sense it’s the Christ, resurrected from...

Faith exists the truly held, felt, smelled, and shelled nugget of gold — the one of my hopes and dreams — but comes by hearing, and the spiritual sense of hearing can only come by the Word of God.. Yes, God’s Word, God Himself, and our participation in that Nature,...

One of the most important words in the Old Testament Hebrew is hesed, translated “mercy” in the King James, but may be better translated “lovingkindness.” According to Spiros Zodhiates, a noted Greek scholar, hesed goes beyond mercy and encompasses more completely the idea of God’s loyalty to covenant obligations. “Because...

Nimrod, it seems, was able to bring people together for a purpose.  The Bible refers to him as a man who became a mighty hunter. He made a direct challenge to the rule of the Lord. This happened sometime after the days of the great Flood. With the waters that...

What pleased the Father most about the life of His Son on earth was not so much His actions as His mental attitude of unconditional obedience to Him Who had sent Him. And it was because the Son loved the Father. Inside of us is the same power of His...

“Kiss the Son. … Blessed are all who take refuge in Him” (Psalm 2:12) Rage and vanities, conspiracy talk and dark counsels — these things breed in an atmosphere where pride reigns. These forces were let loose long ago in the Garden. There, a simple choice to take and swallow...

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”   John...

We scarcely know all that we have been delivered from, fellow believers. James Masterson lists 10 “capacities” of the self life, in his book,”The Personality Disorders.” Among these we find the capacity for: Spontaneity One for entitlement: to appropriate experiences of mastery and pleasure And the entitlement to environmental support...