The Culture of Hope Founded on Faith
More Than Comforter, Part 5
There are concepts in the Bible that range from difficult-to-grasp to incomprehensible for the limitations of the human mind. One of those is the triune nature of God. The Bible is clear that God is three-in-one. One of the references to the three persons is in 2 Corinthians 13:14, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion…..
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More Than Comforter, Part 4
As a teenager, I struggled with the concept of knowing the will of God. Should I become a doctor, a lawyer, a nurse, a detective? Is it God’s will for me to go on a short-term evangelical mission to France or not? Who will I marry? When we talk about the will of God, we generally think in terms of three sources to…..
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More Than Comforter, Part 3
The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter in Scripture, but the Greek word that is used, paracletus, is also translated Helper and Teacher. Two weeks ago we looked at the Holy Spirit as coming in place of the physical Christ to be there as Comforter, Helper, and Teacher for the disciples and for believers since then. Last week we looked at the function…..
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More Than Comforter, Part 2
During and after His last Passover supper, Jesus gave His disciples instructions regarding His upcoming absence from them. As written in John 13-17, He spoke for their comfort and about the Holy Spirit who would come in Jesus’ absence. The presence of the Holy Spirit in each Christian is assurance of our salvation:
“And I will pray the Father and He…..
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More Than Comforter, Part 1
During and after His last Passover supper, Jesus gave His final instructions to His disciples. They are recorded in detail in John 13-17 and are just as pertinent to our individual walk with God as they were some two thousand years ago at the end of Jesus’ ministry on earth. They include information about the function of the Holy Spirit in the…..
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Silence in the Presence of God
“But the LORD is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him” (Hab. 2:20).
The context of the prophet Habakkuk’s declaration is the contrast between the impotent idols of man and the perfect power and glory of God. The Lord is not only “in His holy temple”, but He is also available to hear us when we call…..
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Knowing the Will of God
When I was a teenager, I was stressed about knowing the will of God for my life. When I was ten years old, I decided I wanted to become an MD. A few years later, the father of a friend discouraged me from doing that, citing the terrible responsibility a doctor has for the care of her patients. I thought perhaps a career…..
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The Cacophony from Hell
Luke 23:13-25 records Jesus’ second appearance before Pilate. The first time He stood before Pilate, the chief priests and scribes of Jerusalem brought charges of political activism against Him, knowing that Pilate would not hear the case based on their religious accusations of blasphemy against a God the Procurator did not believe in:
“Pilate summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the…..
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God’s Character Revealed in Salvation
In our modern-day Bibles, Psalm 139:1-24 appears to be one long poem written without separations except by single-sentence lines. But when you read it through from start to finish, it becomes clear that the psalm is David’s declaration of his relationship with God who is omniscient and omnipresent. It also envisages the relationship of the New Testament believer with God, listing the benefits…..
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God Can Even Make A Donkey Talk…
What would you do if your dog began to talk to you as if he were human? We used to have a very intelligent Chow who had learned, among other speech mimicry, the two syllables for the word “outside” and used it when he needed to go outside. But it was still two barks. The shape of his muzzle and the…..