Never Give Up on Praying! The Bible says that John the Baptist’s father, Zacharias, was a priest “of the division of Abijah” (Luke 1:5). What if God had answered the prayers of Zacharias and Elizabeth many years earlier, in giving them their son, John? Wouldn’t he have grown up to be John the priest instead…
Christ’s Resurrection and Great Commission: preach the Gospel and make disciples There is power in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ! There is also power in the resurrected life of a disciple of Jesus! First Christ creates a follower who is called to be with Him (Mark 3:14), and then after discipling the individual, He then…
At the cross of Christ all your sins were paid for! The very reason why Jesus had to be birthed into this Earth, in a physical body of flesh, culminates with His death at the cross for your sins. While the cross of Christ is being greatly ignored around the world, what Jesus accomplished by…
The real Christmas story has nothing to do with Santa Claus! If you remember the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, you recall Ralphie (played by Peter Billingsley) obsessing over getting a Red Ryder BB gun as a present for Christmas. A dressed up Santa Claus, and even his mom tell him, “You’ll shoot your eye…
The Bible teaches of a Substitutionary Atonement. Barabbas was one curious character in the Bible to receive it. His name means son of a father, and we find that he has many similarities to us all. In an interesting way, Barabbas embodies the person who was replaced as Christ died in his place. In short,…