Yesterday we looked at the last ten verses of the Gospel of Luke and if one is not careful you can almost miss a very important event in the Disciples’ life and all of humanity’s history. In our modern Bibles we have subtitles to prepare our minds to process...
Some Christians do not like the term Easter Sunday; some I know despise it. All of these folks prefer to call it Resurrection Sunday; I do too because that is what happened on that heavenly Sunday morn. Christ rose from the grave. How we came to call it Easter is...
It may seem strange writing about Christmas in the spring, but I want to look at the birth of Jesus. Some Hebrew scholars believe Jesus was born in the fall around the Feast of the Tabernacle. So why do we celebrate Jesus’ birth on December 25? That’s another...
What can I do to bring joy to Jesus? First, I’ve done so by surrendering my life to Him. By making Him my King, my Lord, I bring Him great joy. And Jesus desires that His joy remains in me. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and...
The title does not speak of joy in Jesus. That is, although I can rejoice in Christ, and I should, I am speaking of something much more deep and personal. I am speaking of the joy OF Jesus; I mean to say Jesus’ joy. The joy Jesus experiences is the joy of which I am...
