After yesterdays work, Jesus returned to Bethany to stay with Mary. Mary was a close confidant of Jesus. Mary seemed to have an intuition as to what Jesus needed. This created a certain amount of jealousy among the disciples. It also seems to have been the determining factor as to why Judas betrayed Jesus. But, […]
Here we are a short time after Palm Sunday. Jesus on this day in history, is still in Jerusalem, and enters the temple, the Jewish house of worship. There he discovered that the temple had become a place of commerce. With great indignation, he astonishes everyone! Driving everyone out of the temple of God that […]
Jesus entering Jerusalem, with many people having come to the feast (Jewish Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread), if there is a history to be known it’s that history. Because today it carries this commemoration, (1) Palm Sunday is an act of remembrance, 1 Corinthians 11:26, “For as often as you eat this bread, and […]
It is not very often that a person graces this world with their presences. Then, 2000 years later his presences here is still memorialized. A reasonable question then presents itself for historians, who was this person? But a more significant question, just who is Jesus Christ today?
Well, the Christ being paraded across the world scene […]
An old truth brought home. Through Christ, we are not of this world. Everything about this world is in opposition to the way Christ would have us live and act!
Therefore, its our duty to create a resistance to whatever it is that this world would foster upon us. Our scriptures portray this as a people […]
“I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happened to them all,” Ecclesiastes 9:11.
Have you ever wondered if the Bible is reliable source of information? Well it is, and here is why! The Bible was written over a period of at least fifteen centuries. Representing a host of different cultures, customs, and languages. With very dissimilar agenda’s considering the varying times that separated their lives. Yet they were […]
“Imagine that! We God’s children, are being built together into a dwelling place for God,” Ephesians 2:22. (source:Kevin Jones)
It has other spiritual dimensions like the following for the aspiring disciple for Christ which is found through 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Which reads.” What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy […]
For You! “You may only be someone in this world, but to someone you are the world,” The Sunshine Committee, King High School.
The people who were responsible for helping create, and make viable our Judea-Christian heritage should make for a great full people. From shinning shore to shinning shore of these United States. A heritage worth defending because its destruction is sought and is taking place on many fronts. And should it be destroyed, it will make […]
The church has this as one of its duties. Which is to betroth the people to one husband as chaste virgins to Christ, 2 Corinthians 11:2. Soon the church will chronicle the meaning of this history through its celebration of Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday, or Easter. In the modern era, eight days representing the […]
“It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. And he intends to be the master,” Ayn Rand, 1905-1952.
And who is better than religious institutions at collecting sacrificial offerings? If […]
“You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that is where the fruit is,” Will Rogers. Well maybe so, but that does not mean the fruit is a nourishing substance. The world is full of all kinds of scams from the orchard fields of productivity to the market place of ideas.
And unfortunately the […]
“Who has believed our report? And to whom is the way of the LORD revealed?
For he shall grow up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he has no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with […]
A woman in a hot air balloon realized that she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend to meet him in a hour, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consulted his portable […]
Knowing that our days are numbered to the last day. A time known only to God, Job 14:5. Then follow the instructions given by Jesus Christ. Who said, when you pray, Say, “Thy kingdom come! Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,” Matthew 6:10.
Thomas asked Jesus in John 14:5, “We know […]
On a particular day a florist went to a barber shop for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, “I can not accept money from you; I’m doing community service this week.” The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the […]
It’s on the horizon according to the Prince of Wales. Who said, “Capitalism and consumerism have brought the world to economic and environmental collapse.” With the Prince scolding the world community with this hot indictment. “We can no longer afford consumerism and the age of convenience is over.”
No doubt it’s time for a change but […]
Sometimes humor tells the story best. But the conclusion isn’t so humorous. A father watched his young daughter playing in the garden, and he smiled as he reflected on how sweet and pure his little girl was. Tears formed in his eyes, as he thought about her seeing the wonders of nature through such innocent […]
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A seventeen year old woman, named Nataline Sarkisyan was scheduled by her doctors to receive a liver transplant. But the families insurer corporate giant, Cigna denied the claim.
Her mother, Hilda, took the matter public by […]