Trusting God: He Knows What He is Doing. Part II

“. . . but as servant of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; . . .”  (2 Corinthians 6:4-5) One of the themes common in this week’s...

Trusting God: He Knows What He is Doing. Part I

  “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”  (Job 38:4 ESV) Many of us often wonder why God allows some much suffering and pain in the world, in our lives. Throughout the book of Job, Job and his friends...

Live to Please the Lord.

“Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.”  (2 Corinthians 5:8-9) Paul’s desire is to please Jesus, because he knows he knows that...

Longing For Home

“For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.” (2 Corinthians 5:2-3) We groan in this life. We are uncomfortable. This is evidence that we do not really belong here, that we long...

Preach The Gospel

“He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.” (Mark 4:27-28) The parables in Mark 4:26-34 remind us of the necessity of...