Tag: Salvation

“There once was a rich man, expensively dressed in the latest fashions, wasting his days in conspicuous consumption. A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been dumped on his doorstep. All he lived for was to get a meal from scraps off the rich man’s table. His best friends were the dogs who came and licked his sores. “Then he died, this poor man, and was taken up by the angels...

At 2:41 a.m. yesterday morning, I received an email from a first cousin who I have called “Little M” for, let’s just say a long time.  Because of age and not accomplishments, nor  academic achievements, not because of writing acumen, or any other factor, just age mind you, she refers to me as “Big M.”  If it were any of the few factors I just named, our nicknames probably would be...

“Be alert, be on watch!  Your enemy, the devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.  Be firm in your faith and resist him, because you know that other believers in all the world are going through the same kind of sufferings.” (I Peter 5:8-9 Good News Translation) At one time or another, “someone” said to you, “I ain’t feeling it,” when asked why he...

“So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.” (Acts 2:41 NASB) At one time the individual living the farthest away and who participated in our Bible Study lived in the Castleton area, and then it was the Zionsville area, and then the utmost northern region of the State of Indiana.  Records are made to be...

“I heard a sound like massed choirs in Heaven singing, “Hallelujah! The salvation and glory and power are God’s—his judgments true, his judgments just. (Revelation 19:1-2a MSG) I had never gone to a March Madness basketball game in my 72 years of life.  But Wednesday I accepted an invitation to attend a Thursday night game as a guest.  It was a very, late game, starting at...

“But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ. And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation,...