How new shall this New Year beIf everything will still be the same -A million children wrecked by hungerA million other torn by shame?How happy shall this New Year beWith those haunting memories of painOf women and children torn apartBy men pretending to be vilely sane?How different will this New Year beIf the world goes on as it does,If it wakes up another morningAnd is not an ounce different from what it was?We must celebrate this New Year, yes we must do;But how new will this New Year be unless we do something new?Yes, we must celebrate this...
No Goodbyes for 2013
When situations look tightAnd wearisome seems the fightWhen giving up feels just alrightThen we find rest and strength in God's unfailing Light!Thankful for a great 2013 -- no goodbyes for we'll carry it into a new year so...
Persistence in Christian Life
Published in REVIVE, Dec. 2013Somebody has said it well, “It is not how you start the race, but how you end the race that wins you the prize.” There are many who start the race very well; there are only a few who become winners. Paul specified, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it” (1Cor.9:24). In other words, God wants us to run with a single, determined focus – to obtain the prize.“To persist” means “to continue firmly in spite of difficulty, opposition,...
The Good Samaritan
The Levite and the priest were so concerned about church service that they left the wounded man unattended. The Good Samaritan gave all he had to save the man in need. Jesus wants us to know that a heartless man is a neighbor of nobody - a stranger to both God and man. But the Good Samaritan who might have never preached a sermon is the one whose story God Himself shares with us to change our hear...
The Cross
THE CROSSWhereHis body was broken to unite us with GodHe suffered the most extreme deprivation to grant us sufficiency in HimselfHe met a finite end to become the root of our infinite destinyHe wore the perishable to cloth us with the imperishableHe experienced the here to lead us into the beyondHerePlurality was reconciled with UnityContingency found sufficiency in NecessityFinitude found completion in InfinityChange was absorbed into ImmutabilityImmanence was introduced to Transcende...
3 Pointers of the Lord's Table
"For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes." (1Cor. 11:26)The Lord's Table points us to:1. Our Past Roots - The Cross of Christ, His Death and Resurrection2. Our Present Responsibility - To Proclaim His Death and Resurrection.3. Christ's Future Return - Till He Comes B...
