Month: March 2019

“Like”able

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Dr. Mike Murphy Time probably never moves slower than when you are waiting in a doctor’s office.  After checking everything on my phone, and watching whatever generic channel the television is on, I often find myself looking around the waiting area at all the other people who are bored beyond belief also.  But as I sat through an unusually long wait the other day, I found that is was not what I saw around me that drew my interest, but what I heard.          Sitting a couple of chairs from me were two young girls, both probably in their late …

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I AM.

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“I thought these eyes had seen everything. That these ears had heard all they could ever hear. I heard the words He spoke at the pool of Bethesda, and I watched in amazement as a man who could not walk for thirty-eight years got on his feet. On a hillside near Capernaum, I listened as the words He spoke took away the pride and deception of so many hearts. And as I looked in the eyes of the crowd that day, I watched in amazement as those same hearts were filled with a loving faith. I watched as a man …

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THE CROSS OF CHRIST

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Hebrews 10:1-14 (KJV)10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.5 Wherefore when he cometh into the …

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Led by Grace

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Genesis 50:1–21Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. 2 Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob* was embalmed. 3 The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.4 When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf. 5 Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back …

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15 – Trusting in the Lord

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This chapter contains the assurance from the Lord of the preservation of the Davidic line unto the appearance of the Messiah the Lord Jesus. The chapter begins identifying the rulers who were conspiring against each other as the Lord led them. Ahaz was the king in the southern kingdom of Judah, Pekah the king in […]

THE TABLE OF HEALING

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LUKE 22:7-207 Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.8 And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it.”9 They said to Him, Where do You want us to prepare it?”10 And He said to them, When you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house that he enters.11 And you shall say to the owner of the house, `The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room …

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Seeing God

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Reflections I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye sees You. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:5-6) Here we find the reason for Job’s trial. He had not sinned against God – God Himself had called him a good and upright man, who loved good and hated evil. But no matter how much we are walking in the light, there is always more light. There is always more of Jesus to see. And suffering adjusts us for doing so.Job had apparently known much TRUE teaching about the …

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Satan Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth – by Hal Lindsey

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Because the relationship between Israel and the United States has become so secure during the first two years of President Donald Trump’s administration, it’s sometimes easy to overlook the fact that much of the world still opposes the tiny Middle Eastern democracy. Because of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s steady, strong, and conservative leadership of Israel, we take for granted that everything is stable within our closest ally’s borders. Not so. For the first time in years, rockets were fired last week from inside Gaza toward Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv. Sirens sounded throughout the area and the entire country went …

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Memories of Things to Come

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By Pete Garcia -March 23, 20190167 Remember the former things of old,For I am God, and there is no other;I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning,And from ancient times things that are not yet done,Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,And I will do all My pleasure   Isaiah 46:9-10 There used to be a time when you could leave your front door unlocked at night.  There used to be a time when folk generally aimed to be nice to each other.  When a dollar was worth a dollar.  When schools not only taught the three “R’s”, but …

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Turning Inadequacy Into Victory

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When we acknowledge our insufficiency and rely on God’s power, He can turn our inadequacy into victory Philippians 2:13“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” In every life, a sense of insufficiency will surface from time to time, but through the Holy Spirit, we have the power to combat it. Like the many insufficient but willing saints who have gone before us, we can turn inadequacy into victory. 1. Acknowledge your weakness. Suppose a neighbor walks across the yard and tells you about his sister’s life-threatening illness. He is …

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Bible 101 – by Jack Kinsella

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“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.” (Deuteronomy 29:29) The key to having a basic working knowledge of the Bible is the understanding of Scripture as a series of progressive revelations from God about the things of the Spirit. There is a difference between Israel and the Church, which is why the Scriptures are divided between the Old Testament (the Covenant between God and the descendants of Abraham through Isaac) and the New …

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A Story Of Grace

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Dr. Mike Murphyfrom 2014 Purim is usually a holiday that comes and goes.  A time for music, food, gifts, and celebration.  Over the years the religious foundations of Purim have been lost in the hearts of the Jewish people. But in recent years, Purim has began to again hold special meaning in many of the homes throughout Israel, and in the hearts of many throughout the world.   As events had unfolded throughout the Middle East over these past years, many people have began to wonder just what the future holds. We watch as the world again focuses its’ attention …

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