Jesus is trying to instruct Nicodemus in the subject of holiness—of heart change. Our lives begin at conception and our first breath with birth. Emerging from our mother’s womb gives us the beginning of a physical existence—setting off in “life.” But being born again means beginning to live anew. We’re…

Have you ever had a small child run up to you, tug your shirttail, and say, “Watch me!” Little ones (and sometimes “not so little” ones) like to be noticed for what they do. Jesus was different. Oh, the wonders He performed! But none of it was meant to call…

These words were spoken by John the Baptist, referring to Jesus. John wanted those around him to realize who Jesus was and why He’d come. The people would have understood a reference to a lamb; they sought forgiveness by shedding the blood of an unblemished lamb. Jesus, the Lamb of…

Have you ever stopped to consider that there is more than one way to see? We see things with our physical eyes, but we also “see” intellectually and morally. Because people haven’t seen God Himself with their physical eyes, they have a hard time “seeing” Him with their knowledge or…

Most of us are familiar with the children’s nighttime prayer, “Now I lay me down to sleep…” The line, “If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take” always seemed scary to me as kid—my life might end during the dark of night???—so I…

“Oh, How I Love Jesus” by Frederick Whitfield. My mom loved this one. And oh, did she love Jesus! But I never heard her sing all NINE verses. Many of our hymns “morph” over the years. This is the 1855 version, in its entirety. 1. There is a Name I…

One of the first books in the New Testament starts, “In the beginning…”, and it shares God’s creation of the world and mankind. The first book of the New Testament begins in similar fashion, giving reference to One who was there before time began. In other words, One who was…

Asa was a very smart ruler. He knew if temptations existed, people would cave. So he removed the elements of temptation to bow to anyone or anything other that the true God of Israel. There are so many distractions in this world, things that steal our focus and tempt us…

Asa gave a kingly command to the people: seek the LORD God! Have you ever played hide and seek? To seek was to pursue. It was active. That’s what the people of Judah were instructed to do—activity seek and follow the LORD of their ancestors. It takes effort to do…

HYMN DAY! “Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus” by George Duffield, Jr. This one ought to get your adrenaline flowing! 1 Stand up, stand up for Jesus ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss: from vict’ry unto vict’ry his army he shall…