DOES GOD GET WEARY? When the Israelites finally got rid of their idolatry, so that their deeds matched their words of repentance, God was moved to answer their cry. The description of the Lords response to Israels true repentance is revealing. For it described Him as being weary of Israels misery.   What does this

LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION Gideon, the hesitant judge, would not be coaxed into being king. He recognized that it was the Lord, and not the people, who had called him to be a judge and lead Israel against the Midianites. Therefore, he did not recognize the peoples authority to name him king and rightly

WHICH SIDE OF THE CROSS ARE YOU ON? In the gospel of Luke, it is recorded that Jesus was crucified between two criminals, one on either side. In the crowd watching the crucifixion were certain Jewish leaders who sneered at Jesus saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ. The

BE CAREFUL ABOUT ASKING GOD FOR A SIGN Gideons fleece test –– Was it narrative or normative? I believe it must be considered narrative, a true story described, yet not prescribed. It is not to be taken as normative, meaning that it does not teach a norm, or a timeless method, on how to discover

LEARNING TO FOLLOW CHRISTS HABIT OF PRAYER On the night that Jesus would be betrayed, He went out as usual to the Mount of Olives to pray. On this unusual evening, Jesus followed His usual habit: He prayed on the mountain. And His disciples followed Him. Yet, rather than praying, they slept. For they were

WHEN THE LORD REPEATS YOUR NAME The Lord addressed him as, Simon, Simon, not as Peter, for he wouldnt live up to his new God-given name, which meant the rock, until after Christs resurrection. Simon Peter tried, but in his flesh he had no power to live up to the new name Jesus had given

DONT WASTE YOUR LIFE! Have you ever heard of the Urgent-Important Matrix? It is a time management system made popular by Stephen Coveys book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The matrix teaches that every task can be placed in one of four possible quadrants: Q1) Urgent and important, Q2) Important, not urgent, Q3)

LOVE AND GIVING ARE CONNECTED As Jesus watched the people putting their gifts into the Temple offering, He offered several insights. One insight is that God sees our giving. He watches over our giving, looking to see who is generous and who is not. Another insight is that God sees the proportion of our giving.

THE DIVINITY AND PREEXISTENCE OF CHRIST Jesus asked the Jewish leaders this question not to suggest that the Messiah wouldnt be born into the line of David, but rather to show them that he would be the Son of God. It was a well known doctrine among the Jews that the Messiah would be born

SILENT AND AMAZED AT JESUS The Jewish leaders sent spies to entrap Jesus with what they thought was an unanswerable question. They asked Jesus, Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” They had carefully crafted the politically charged question, so that if he answered in the positive, he would offend