ISRAEL AND SUPERSESSIONISM Wednesday – October 25, 2017 There is much controversy about the place of Israel in the plan of God. Since the advent of the Messiah, ratifying of the New Blood Covenant, and the rejection of Jesus (Messiah) by Judaism some say that Israel is replaced by the Church. This idea is called…
RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD Wednesday – October 25, 2017 Our featured picture today is more donkey pictures with a water trough in the foreground and a few of our cattle in the distance. That was a wonderful season in our life that God allowed and blessed however now we are in a season that is…
MORE LAYING ON OF HANDS Tuesday – October 24, 2017 We cannot minimize the importance or overstate the importance of the laying on of hands. As I am sure that you have noticed that the flow of power or empowerment is always from the greater to the lesser (the one in need). For example, the…
AMERICA AND COLUMBUS DAY Monday – October 23, 2017 We have recently celebrated, ignored or protested Columbus Day. To be honest I am not an expert on Columbus. I know that he discovered, or is given credit for discovering the America’s although the Norsemen may have been the first. He may or may not have…
POWER FLOW Monday – October 23, 2017 When we are called by God to lay hands upon another person the healing power (a work of God) in, upon, and with us is released. When others call for us to lay hands upon them such as the multitudes which came to Jesus or as in James…
THE CHURCH – POWER, LOVE, A SOUND-MIND OR NOT? Friday – October 20, 2017 Is the Church today acting like the world, or perhaps like a little frightened child or are we being the sons and daughters our Heavenly Father fashioned us to be in the Kingdom of God? I have featured a picture of…
LAYING ON OF HANDS Friday – October 20, 2017 The author of this precious Book of Hebrews, perhaps a Teacher, is talking about the lack of maturity in the Church. He is with the leadership of the Holy Spirit telling the readers that they are stuck in time, perhaps what we would call a rut…
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Thursday – October 19, 2017 What a wonderful fall picture from my library of pictures. God is so good to give us all the beauty around us if we will but look. Just think how things will look in Heaven (like earth before the fall) and once the one-thousand-year reign…
ISRAEL – AND THE BLESSING Wednesday – October 18, 2017 Galatians 3:13-14 (KJV) 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through…
WATER BAPTISM Wednesday – October 18, 2017 Enjoy this picture from the ranch taken in 2008 of the donkeys we had at the time. Let us take moment to carefully reflect upon our primary text as we dive into the topic of water baptism. Hebrews 6:1-3 (KJV) 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine…