“God has raised this Jesus to life…” Acts 2:32 The resurrection of Jesus is like no other resurrection account in history.  Sure, Lazarus and some others came back from the dead and those accounts are truly amazing, but they were only possible with the assistance of God and Jesus, and in later resurrections, only with [...]

Day 18—Acts 8:4-25   4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. 5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. 6 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. 7 With shrieks, evil spirits [...]

Day 5—John 15:18-25     18“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates [...]

Day 4—John 8:21-30  21 Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”     22 This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?” [...]

“Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.” John 11:1 Jesus seemed to spend a lot of time in the village of Bethany. Jesus traveled through Bethany when he made his “triumphal entry” into Jerusalem. Bethany is also the place where Jesus was eating [...]

I try to play golf on Friday mornings at Boiling Springs Golf Course.  My favorite time to play by far is in the early morning when barely anyone is out there, just a few guys on their mowers and me.  Typically I’ll wake up with Christmas-morning-like excitement with my mind rehearsing my drive swing, and this goes on all the way [...]

“Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.  “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”  Matthew 14:31 Was there a better way for Jesus to show his professional fisherman friends who he really was when he easily calmed the open sea?  I mean come on, to say, “Quiet!  Be still!” and [...]

(This is my post today from www.mission454.com, our teen website.) Well, either Jesus is who he claimed to be, or he isn’t.  There are not two answers.  It’s yes or no.  Jesus is Lord or liar. King or crook. Healer or faker. The savior of all mankind or another false teacher. The Great I AM or just a [...]

Surely as he paraded out of the house and saw the amazed and awe-inspired looks on the faces of the onlookers, his friends and family, surely he had a smile on his face.

When you turn to the Lord and fully give him your heart, you begin to reflect his glory, and…begin to be transformed into the likeness of our Lord.