The New Birth and Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Are we taking advantage of our inheritance given? Born from Above Our new birth in Christ, through faith in our Father’s resurrection of Christ, has made all things new. We are a new creation in Christ. All the “in Christ” truths are ours to receive. This week, before...

That I May Know Him – Week 23

Scripture reading is the only way into the fullness of God. Without God’s word, we are powerless against the devil and subject to the world. Jesus said, in His prayer to the Father, before being offered up as our sacrifice: “I do not pray that You should take them out...

When Jesus Ascended

What it might have been like to lose Jesus into the clouds. This Friday will mark the Ascension of our Lord Jesus into the clouds, followed by ten days of prayer in the upper room to the coming of the Holy Spirit. I wonder what that might have felt like. To begin...

That I May Know Him – Week 22

Pentecost, where we celebrate the giving of the Law through the Spirit and not the letter. We are in or near Pentecost Sunday (depending on the year you use this reading schedule). Pentecost is the day Israel celebrates the giving of the Ten Commandments through Moses...

Joined to Jesus’ Peace

All the blessings of the Lord are in our Lord Jesus Christ.  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 Here, “Peace” in the Greek means “to join peace”, to...
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