When God instructed Noah to make a boat called the “ark”, He said, “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” (Genesis 6:14) Pitch was a black, sticky, tar-like substance that repelled water. In Genesis 6:14, the Hebrew word used […]
In reality, when a person accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, that person is entering into a blood covenant relationship with God, the Creator of all that exists, has existed in the past, and everything to be created in the future. Christians may have missed the blessings of such a relationship. The blessings begin […]
2 Corinthians 5:20-21, “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” […]
I do not like heights. My wife and I were driving home one day and saw men working on a cell phone tower that must have been about 300 to 400 feet tall. They were dangling by harnesses but they didn’t seem to be afraid. I do not envy people who work in high places. […]
Several years ago on a trip to Israel, Julie and I were able to go to the road leading to Emmaus from Jerusalem. I remember how beautiful it was in the particular spot where the guide explained how it was thought to be the approximate place where, after His resurrection, Jesus had walked with two […]