Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. — Acts 4:12 What is the ultimate victory of the cross? That it could not hold the Savior of the world, who triumphed over sin and death, winning salvation for mankind. The…
Who Will Go?
How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? — Romans 10:14 The risen Christ commands His followers to go into all the world and preach the good news. — Mark 16:15 God doesn’t promise that obedience will be easy or…
A Message in the Night
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. — Luke 2:8 The first Christmas worship service was conducted not in a temple, a cathedral, or a synagogue, but in the great outdoors. The tidings of Christ’s birth echoed in the skies as the angel of the…
The Joy of Christmas
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. — Matthew 2:10 Every year people write me saying how much they dread Christmas. often their complaint stems from how busy they will be, or how much money they will spend. Did those wise men who journeyed hundreds of miles across the desert to…
First Day of Advent! A Heavenly Herald
Today is the first day of Advent — the season of waiting, anticipating, preparing, and rejoicing for the coming celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Meditate today on the history-shattering even of the birth of Christ. Start this Advent season with song! What are you doing today to mark the beginning of…
Bible Verses about Heaven
What does the Bible say about heaven? There are Bible verses about heaven in fifty-four of the sixty-six books in the Bible. Jesus mentions Heaven about seventy times in the book of Matthew alone. Scriptures about Heaven appears from the very first verse in Genesis- “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”- to the last…
History-Changing Prayer
[Hezekiah prayed,] “O Lord our God, deliver us from [the enemy’s] hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God.” That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. — 2 Kings 19:19, 2…
Where I Am: No Wonder He Is King
The King’s Eternal Reign: The Cradle, The Cross, and The Crown The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of… Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever! — Revelation 11:15 No wonder He was a Carpenter. Cradled in a manger made of wood, He brought Christmas joy to the world at His birth.…
The Leap of Faith to Eternal Life
In October 1929, the Saturday Evening Post published a landmark interview with the great physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. I find his response to questions of Jesus as a historical figure simply breathtaking. He answered, I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene… No one can read the Gospels without feeling the…
Blessings of the Cross
O LORD my God, You are very great; …You who laid the foundations of the earth. – Psalm 104:1 , Psalm 104:5 God’s love did not begin at Calvary. Before the morning stars sang together, before the world was baptized with the first light, before the first blades of tender grass peeped out, God was…