Luke 5:8

God believes in you. And he is still holding you. You are worthy of good things happening to you...yes even you.…

The confrontations we noted last week wherein the scribes and Pharisees were incredulous that Jesus ate and drank with tax-gatherers and sinners stemmed from (on one occasion, at least) Jesus’ invitation to Matthew to follow him.1 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, ‘Why……

The juxtaposition of two Bible stories in Luke 5 is stark. This lesson when seeing both of them together is: You are worthy of good things happening to you.…

By Elizabeth Prata After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. And as he reasoned about righteousness an……

By Elizabeth Prata When Isaiah was brought up to the Throne Room of heaven and saw God in His glory, he fell down and said, “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dw……

At times, the Word of God will tell you to do something altogether different than what your experience and professionalism tell you to do.…

It is easy to feel inferior to someone who knows something you don’t—especially when they hold information that you earnestly desire. For centuries, religious mystics have been working overtime to insinuate that the church suffers from the same kind of information void, supposedly a void that only they can fill. When the apostle Paul wrote …

By Elizabeth Prata I know it’s currently an atmosphere were we say Jesus is my friend…he met me in the garden and promised me… he whispered sweet nothings… he embraces me li……

By Elizabeth Prata Scene, busy shopping mall. It’s so large that many people are lost. They look at the map in the central courtyard with the dot “you are here,” but many still do……

Hebrews 11:27, 28 Faith is seeing what no one else sees and betting your life, and the lives of others, on it. “27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who was invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.” (Hebrews 11:27, 28). There is some debate as to which departure from Egypt is referred to in verse 27: the first, after Moses had killed…