Believing is different from knowing. John 6:69: "Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." To know means to have cerebral knowledge of something. To believe has multiple dimensions: not only do you have complete and...
Faith comes by hearing God speak to us. We must always endeavor to hear the Lord as we pray. Prayer must be a dialogue; never a monologue. Are you hearing God when you pray? Are you leaving enough time and space in your prayers to let Him speak to you? Romans...
What paved the way for Jesus to perform His first miracle? An invitation: “Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding” (John 2:2). Jesus had just been baptized three days prior to the wedding in Cana of Galilee. As He rose up out of the water, the...
For the past few weeks, my wife and I have been trying to catch a mouse in our kitchen. The unwelcome rodent managed to eat the peanut butter in the traps without setting them off. Each night, I would set traps in different ways, thinking a new technique might rid my...
Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Do you have dreams? Things you want to accomplish in your life that seem out of reach? When those dreams align with His...
Recently, I finished the book Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J. Warner Wallace. Wallace, a now-retired Los Angeles homicide detective, shares his journey from atheism to faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ....
Jesus never ate a hamburger or a hot dog. So why does He talk about mustard so much? One of Jesus’ most famous and influential parables is that of the mustard seed. He relates the importance of this tiny seed in the gospel as recorded by Luke: Luke 17:5-6: And the...
Occasionally, my wife and I get a moment to sit down together and watch a movie. My tastes in film have narrowed in the recent years. Still, I listen to recommendations for movies, especially when they are coming from an unexpected source. One such film we...