Jehovah Jireh - "The Lord God Who Provides" (Genesis 22:14) As we continue looking at the incredible Names of God, we’ll look at one that we all love to call upon whether we do so in the Hebrew Name or simply by our own asking. That Name is Jehovah Jireh - "The Lord God Who Provides" found first in Genesis 22:14. It's an incredible story of faith and the unbelievable testing of that faith of Abraham by God. God asks him to make a sacrifice... Read More
February 8, 2022
Names of God – Pt 2
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Yahweh or Jehovah - The Lord God (Genesis 2:4) As we continue with this series and move through Scripture, another Name of God that we encounter, allowing us to know more fully Who He Is and His impact and involvement in our lives, is Yahweh or Jehovah. The Jewish people reverenced (and many still do so today) God in such a way that they won't even say or write His full name so it was often displayed as YHWH with no vowels (as we know... Read More
January 26, 2022
NAMES OF GOD SERIES – Pt 1
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The Lord our God is One (Deuteronomy 6:4) If we are going to fulfill the first and greatest command to worship God alone and love Him with all our being (Mark 12:29-31) then we need to spend the time to get to know Him! The Lord has laid it on my heart to share the Names of God, where they are found and maybe most poignantly, how each of them is fulfilled in Christ! Over the next few posts we will look at several names... Read More
December 29, 2021
Secure in Christ
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For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6 - emphasis in original) As we close out 2021 and look to 2022 I think most of us, just as we did in 2020, are hoping and praying that COVID was behind us and the economy would settle down and get back to thriving. We wanted to be able to gather again as families and friends, to... Read More
December 21, 2021
The CHRISTmas Blessing
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(Matthew 1:21-23) In CHRISTmas Memories we recognized both the ups and downs that CHRISTmas can bring. In CHRISTmas Players we shared a unique perspective from the “least” of the CHRISTmas players, the Bethlehem shepherds, and the role they played as well as lessons we can learn from them. In this post, I want to turn our focus directly to the choice that Jesus made which makes CHRISTmas a reality and in doing so gave us the model for our lives and relationships…that of humility and... Read More