Posts from November 2020

ADVENT SEASON (THE ANTICIPATION OF CHRIST’S BIRTH IN THE SEASON LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS) 28 NAMES OF JESUS NOVEMBER 30, 2020 Name #1: “Glory of the Lord” “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way…

Ten Things to Be Thankful For, Day 10: God’s Provision Think back to when you were a kid. What was that food that you absolutely despised eating? That food that, if given the choice to eat or go hungry, made going hungry seem like the better option. For me it was red beets. I don’t know how they kept ending up on our dinner table when I was growing up but they did, and every time they did, I was…

 Ten Things to Be Thankful For, Day 9: Blessings ”And [Jesus] opened his mouth and taught them, saying: ‘Blessed . . . “ (Matthew 5:2 – 3). Quick! What do you say when someone sneezes? If it’s someone you know well, you might say, “Gross! Why didn’t you use a tissue?” But normally, we say, “God bless you!” To which my wife says, “He always does!” Jesus began each saying on the Sermon on the Mount with the word, “Blessed (Greek,…

Ten Things to be Thankful for, Day 8: God’s Relentless Pursuit to Save Unworthy People (That Means All of Us.) Consider that the God of the Universe is pursuing you — just as you are — because He wants you to know Him. Consider how God pursued Jonah the prophet (Jonah Chapters 1 – 2) just as he was: Jonah must have looked sinfully ugly. He refused to do as God commanded and was trapped in the dismal belly of…

Ten Things to be Thankful For, Day 7: Give Thanks for the Freedom of Who You Want to Be (1 Corinthians 6:12 – 20) “‘All things are lawful for me,’ but not all things are helpful. ‘All things are lawful for me,’ but I will not be dominated by anything” (1 Corinthians 6:12). There have been times in my life where I wish I were a robot. There have been times in my life when I would be overwhelmed with…

Ten Things to be Thankful For, Day 6: Learning Something New Every Day “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24, KJV). Have you ever thanked God for TODAY? A new day with the opportunities of serving our Lord and sharing the Good News of Jesus with everyone that you come in contact with throughout your day. Psalm 118 is centered on God, in a movement that expresses gratitude,…

Ten Things to Be Thankful For, Day 5: Forgiveness Making the Choice to Forgive One of the greatest books I have ever read is Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. It is a biography about Louis Zamperini’s journey to Christ and his choice to forgive those who tortured him in the Japanese prison camps of World War II, personally. His journey was such an extraordinary event that the press followed the American Olympian and hero to Japan and chronicled the entire trip,…

Ten Things to Be Thankful For, Day 4: Another Day Have you ever had one of those mornings where you struggle to get out of bed? Not because your bed was too comfortable, or because you didn’t sleep well. Instead, you struggled to get out of bed because of what was waiting for you when you started your day. We’ve all had days where we didn’t have much to look forward to. Sometimes, life just overwhelms us — the details…

Ten Things to be Thankful For, Day 2: Family When we think of family, what comes to your mind? Are you thinking back to when you were a child, and all those memories come flooding back? One of my favorite memories with my father was no matter where we lived, we always met up at Allentown at Christmas time to shop for our wives. We would go downtown to Hess’s and then over to Leh’s to look at all the…