Message: When God led Israel out of the captivity of Egypt they had been enslaved for so long that they didn’t know how to live as an independent nation and they weren’t trained to defend themselves yet. In Exodus chapter... Continue reading →

Message: Luke 17 starts off talking about offenses. Jesus was warning that it is impossible to avoid offenses. We are all going to deal with it, whether we ourselves are offended, or we have offended someone else. There is a... Continue reading →

Message: A few days ago, we talked about how Pharaoh was trying to negotiate with Israel much like we try to do with sin. We seem to think we can separate parts of it out to try to hang onto... Continue reading →

Message: Luke 15 is well known to most everyone. We have heard lots about the prodigal son and even a significant  amount about the older brother, so what I have to say is not necessarily a new idea. I just... Continue reading →

 Message: In Exodus 8 Moses continues to confront Pharaoh to let Israel go and some patterns begin to change a bit. The magicians and sorcerers were able to reproduce the frogs but when Moses asked Pharaoh when he wanted the... Continue reading →

Message: In Exodus 7 Moses followed God’s exact instructions to go to Pharaoh and demand that he free his people. God prepared Moses in advance that Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and God intended to use his hardness of heart to ... Continue reading →

Message: Luke 12 reminds me that although we live here on this earth and we are building and making plans, this is not where our treasure should be. Our treasure is in eternity and just like we work here on... Continue reading →

Message: Ok Exodus 5 got me today and it got me good! When Moses began confronting Pharaoh things got real tough for Israel. A couple of Israelites went to Pharaoh and tried to pitch their complaints and it didn’t go... Continue reading →

Message: There is SO much to glean from Luke 10, but being the busy body that I am, I was particularly drawn to that very last 5 verses about Mary and Martha. It’s a common story where Mary is praised... Continue reading →

Message: The verse that spoke to me the strongest today was Luke 9:44-45. Jesus was telling his disciples that he was going to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. He actually told them to “let these words sink in”... Continue reading →

Message: What caught my attention today was in Luke 8 when the disciples asked Jesus what the parable of the sower meant. Jesus told them that the secrets of the kingdom of God were for them to know, but parables... Continue reading →

Message: In Luke 7 what grabbed my attention was at the end of the chapter when Simon, the Pharisee invited Jesus over for dinner. A woman with a sinner’s reputation came with an alabaster jar of oil crying, anointing and... Continue reading →

Message: I got two major take-aways from Luke 6. The first is that we shouldn’t be so impressed with ourselves for being kind and merciful to kind people because even “sinners” do that. In this culture we hear a lot... Continue reading →

Message: In Luke 5 we see how Peter is not quite a disciple of Jesus yet, but Jesus wanted to teach the crowds and he asks Peter to put out his boat out a bit so he could stand on... Continue reading →

Message: Today as I was reading about the different temptations that Satan used on Jesus, I started thinking how they might be interpreted  if they were used on me. We have a tendency to examine temptation with the viewpoint of... Continue reading →

Message:  In Genesis 47 the Jacob (AKA Israel) moved to Egypt to be protected from the famine. They were given the best of the land because they were the relatives of Joseph. As the famine progressed, the people of Egypt... Continue reading →

Message: Jesus was God in the flesh and as he grew, his wisdom and authority became more prominent. When he was 12 and his parents lost him in Jerusalem and questioned him why he had “treated” them like this, Jesus... Continue reading →

Message: In Genesis 45 when Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers he tells them not to be angry at themselves for selling him to Egypt because he recognized that it was GOD who sent him there to preserve life.... Continue reading →

Message: In Mark16 after Jesus resurrected he appeared to Mary Magdalene. When she told the disciples they didn’t believe her. He appeared in a “different form” to two of them walking on the road, and when they told the others... Continue reading →

Message: Blessings are difficult to receive when there is guilt on your conscience. In Genesis 43 Joseph’s brothers were already tormented by their guilt as they went through the questioning in Egypt. It had been more than 20 years since... Continue reading →