Promises to Keep

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” John  3:16  NASB Eternal life – “Man’s task is to make the world worthy of redemption.”[1]  But wait!  Why should I worry about making the world worthy of redemption when I’m waiting to…

DIY

Israel has been saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated to all eternity.  Isaiah 45:17  NASB Eternity – Isaiah just got it wrong.  He wrote long before the continuous anti-Semitism of Europe and certainly before WWII.  Israel was humiliated over and over and over again.  I guess this…

Statute of Limitation

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, Psalm 103:17 NASB From everlasting to everlasting – “How far is it?” The nine-year-old in the backseat asked this question about every ten minutes until we arrived at the butterfly garden. But as…

Sin of a Lifetime

“but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” Mark 3:29 NASB Never – What a lot of grief this verse has caused! Scary. Condemning. Hopelessness. Just some of the reactions to Yeshua’s warning. But maybe we are reading these words through our own cultural glasses. Maybe…

The Game Plan

And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good?  There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”  Matthew 19:17  NASB To enter into life – So what do you want out of life?  What are the things that really, really…