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| Each week, one of our authors contributes a weekly reading to the site. This is our archive of those weekly readings. |
The problem comes when we try to "live in the past". The good old days certainly were great and they tend to look even better when you reflect on them, but that's just what they are - old days. |
Peter had no desire to see Jesus killed. The popular view of The Messiah at the time of Peter was not as a man who came to serve and lay up His life for the world, but rather as a conqueror and a powerful ruler of the Jewish people. |
Everything was ready; all I needed now was a match. I hadn't given a second thought as I shook the box and heard the reassuring sound of matches inside. I was confident that the fire was going be a masterpiece, until I opened the matchbox. |
If our focus is not on things eternal, it's easy to support and agree with spiritual matters without putting a shoulder to the grindstone. We want God to heal our disease, protect us on long journeys and pay our bills. |
We wouldn't think of Moses as a weakling. God put him in charge of hundreds of thousands of Israelite refugees. These travellers were not happy pilgrims either - Moses endured every kind of complaint and confrontation that you care to mention at the hands of the Israelites. |
So often when faced with trials or troubles of one kind or another, we end up complicating our faith with varying degrees of human reason and worldly wisdom. The result is we end up taking our eyes off Jesus... |
The Pharisees preached a life lived in accordance with the Law, but they themselves did not follow what the Law said, regardless of whom they cheated, robbed or hurt along the way. They began to measure their piety by their own 'holiness', even though they did not follow... |
We can converse personally with The God who divided the ocean into two sides before Moses, delivered Daniel from the mouths of the lions and consumed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from heaven. Today. Tonight. Right Now. |
When I consider the case of this helpless man, I am sometimes amazed at our lack of faith in Christ. In order for the leper to be healed, Jesus Christ had to become everything for him or nothing at all. |
The most effective Christians in life seem to be the ones who have something to look forward to. They have their eyes fixed on eternity. When we have something to look forward to, our load becomes a little lighter and the burdens aren't so heavy anymore. |