HANNAH, A GODLY EXAMPLE OF MOTHERHOOD Hannah was barren. At her familys annual visit to the Tabernacle at Shiloh to worship and bring offerings, she was so stricken with grief that she could only mouth the words to her prayers. Her lips moved, but no sound came forth. She cried out from her heart that

FAITH AND FAMILY When the nobleman from Capernaum came to Jesus, begging Him to come to heal his dying son, Jesus said, Go your way, your son lives. The man believed the word of Jesus and went his way. As he was going, his servants met him saying, Your son lives! When he asked the

THE WITNESS OF WORSHIP This is a call to both worship and witness. We might even say that it is a call to the kind of worship that is in itself a witness to the peoples of the world.   The psalmist called the people of Israel to begin their worship with thanks to the

REVIVAL WILL TAKE COLLABORATION NOT COMPETITION John the Baptists followers worried that more people were following Jesus than John. When John heard them saying this, he rebuked them. He recognized that God determined spiritual results. And he also understood that his ministry was to prepare the way for Christs ministry. As John said referring to

MANMADE RELIGION DOES NOT PLEASE GOD What a convoluted story this is! It begins with Micahs confession that he had taken 1,100 shekels of silver from his mother, who had consequently put a curse on whomever had stolen it. When his mother heard his confession, she blessed him, and told him that she had dedicated

DO YOU SEEK THE SIGNS OR THE SAVIOR? This was the first of seven signs that the apostle John recorded in his gospel. John calls them signs and not miracles because signs point to something other than themselves.   On a trip a few years ago to see the Grand Canyon, I noticed Grand Canyon

A PRAYER FOR ONE OVERWHELMED WITH TROUBLE The inscription above this psalm describes it as a prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble. Certainly, there is a need for concrete language to truly capture the condition of such a one. The hurting are in need of words of expression that they might lift up to the

THE ONE WHO CAME AFTER YET LONG BEFORE John the Baptist was born three months before Jesus (see Luke 1:36). So, in that sense, Jesus came after John. Yet the Spirit had revealed to John that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God, therefore He had existed long before John and had preference or

WHAT WAS WRITTEN MUST BE FULFILLED The risen Lord Jesus opened His disciples understanding of the Scriptures, so that they might see the necessity of Christs suffering and resurrection, in order to fulfill the Scriptures. And not only that, but the necessity that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to

DO YOU REALLY KNOW HOW SOMEONE ELSE FEELS? John Donne wrote that no man is an island, illustrating his conviction that we should recognize the unity and commonality of all humanity. Yet, the Proverb teaches that there is within a man that which cannot be fully shared nor understood by another. For the depth of