Have you ever noticed God’s funny math, especially when it comes to love? Jesus boils all the law into these two commands… Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND [...]
Hi all, Please check out this post from my friend and dear brother Steven Gomez. Go and sign up on his page. He's got a new blog and the posts are fantastic!! Enjoy, Ben Are You Waiting? In reading Isaiah 40:31, I’m encouraged and reminded by the Holy Spirit on the importance of waiting. [...]
"And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me." - Matthew 11:6 John the baptist lands in prison. Not exactly the platform he had envisioned when God put it in His heart to take up public speaking. God gave him a message to preach, and now he could only share it with the [...]
but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house--whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. - Hebrews 3:6 The book of Hebrews offers us some controversial and sobering ideas. I find many in Christian circles have no place for conditional statements [...]
“Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of beads.” - Song of Songs 1:10 We’ve been eaves dropping on a bit of romance these days on SoSSaturday. We are listening in as the Shepherd King describes His maiden fair. Last week we heard Him tell her of how He loved her cheeks [...]
In Luke 6 Jesus preaches a very similar sermon. It may be the Sermon on the mount from a different man’s point of view, or Jesus preached this content more than once. In any case, there is something very interesting about Luke’s account. As with much of Luke’s gospel, there is an edge to Jesus’ [...]
Silver and Gold, Silver and Gold - #SoSSaturday We will make for you ornaments of gold with beads of silver. - Song of Songs 1:11 The two most precious materials of ancient times–Gold and Silver. Thus the Shepherd King intends to deck out His maiden fair. Can you imagine how our girl feels when she [...]
Rejoice, and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5:12 As I come to the end of this beginning (the Beatitudes) I can’t help but notice once again the upside-down nature of the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus tells us that the proper [...]
I’ve been going through the Psalms of late, and taking the truth contained in them and declaring it out loud (and in my journal) over myself and my loved ones. Today I came to Psalm 91, and as it always does, it blew me away. It became one long declaration for me this morning. I [...]
“Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of beads.” - Song of Songs 1:10 As we look at the Shepherd King’s words toward our maiden fair we are going to see Him use dozens of word pictures. Last week we looked at an example of an image from nature, this week we see [...]