Archive for July 4, 2012

Life Source – Week 8 – Day 2 ** John 17: 1

As Jesus finishes the final conversation with His disciples … He turns His eyes to heaven and to the Father in prayer.  This prayer – which seems so intimate and personal that we feel we are eavesdropping – was meant to be heard.  It was meant to be heard by Jesus’ disciples at the time and by us this many generations removed from the moment.  I want to spend quiet, reflective time in this “high priestly prayer”.  Let’s move slowly … carefully … thoughtfully … as we read these verses.  And, let’s turn Jesus’ words and heart into our own.  More >

Faithful Is Our God

In Matthew 28:9, while the two Marys were on the way to report to the disciples all the angel had told and showed them, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him.

I love the faithfulness of God. He always honors the little faith that we have and makes it stronger. The angel just finished telling the two Marys that Jesus was risen and even showed them the empty tomb and they immediately obeyed God’s commandments to spread the Gospel. Now the story that they were about to spread did seem More >

Life Source – Week 8 – Day 2 ** John 17: 1

As Jesus finishes the final conversation with His disciples … He turns His eyes to heaven and to the Father in prayer.  This prayer – which seems so intimate and personal that we feel we are eavesdropping – was meant to be heard.  It was meant to be heard by Jesus’ disciples at the time and by us this many generations removed from the moment.  I want to spend quiet, reflective time in this “high priestly prayer”.  Let’s move slowly … carefully … thoughtfully … as we read these verses.  And, let’s turn Jesus’ words and heart into our own.  More >

Thought for the morning of Wed July 4, 2012

Sanctification begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God infuses into man that new living principle by which he becomes “a new creature” in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways-mortification, whereby the lusts of the flesh are subdued and kept under; and vivification, by which the life which God has put within us is made to be a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. This is carried on every day in what is called “perseverance,” by which the Christian is preserved and continued in a gracious state, and is More >