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Show me Your Glory

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                  Scientists tell us that the slant of the earth, tilted at an angle of 23 degrees, produces our seasons. If the earth had not been tilted exactly as it is, vapors from the oceans would move both north and south, piling up continents of ice. If the Moon were only 50,000 miles away from earth, instead of 200,000 miles away, the tides might be so enormous that all continents would be submerged. The stars are God's fingerprints. The sun is a mere smidgen of His radiance. The moon is to remind us that He doesn't sleep at night. The vastness of space proclaims the infinity of His wisdom, while the sand pebble indicates His thoroughness with the puniest details. And yet, those possess only a tidbit of God's omnipotence and omnipresence (Brent D. Earles). For many years a desire had been growing in the heart of Moses to see the face of God and in Exodus 33 he prayed to God “now show me your glory.” The Lord said, “you cannot s...
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Jesus is the Lord of Glory

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                           An eminent preacher once said to the great English actor Macready: "I wish you would explain to me something." "Well, what is it? I don't know that I can explain anything to a preacher." The preacher said "what is the reason for the difference between you and me? You are appearing before crowds night after night with fiction and the crowds come wherever you go. I am preaching the essential and unchangeable truth and I am not getting any crowd at all." Macready's answer was this: "This is quite simple. I can tell you the difference between us. I present my fiction as though it were truth; you present your truth as though it were fiction."  In Acts 3 we read about Apostle Peter’s second sermon. Acts 3:11-12 says “while the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade. When Peter saw this, he said to the...
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God is Good

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  Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Corrie and her family became involved in hiding the Jews. Eventually, the Nazis arrested Corrie, her sister Betsie and their elderly father. Her father died ten days later. Corrie and Betsie were sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. Despite brutal conditions, abuse from guards, and the murder of prisoners around them, Betsie and Corrie ministered to the women in the camp, sharing the gospel from a small smuggled Bible. Even as many fellow prisoners turned to Christ, Betsie fell ill. She told Corrie that they will both be free by New Year. Betsie died at Ravensbrück on December 16, 1944. On Christmas Day Corrie was miraculously released. After the war, Corrie traveled the world sharing her story and her faith in God. She touched millions of lives through books and speaking tours before dying on her ninety-first birthday. She often recalled Betsie’s hope-filled words: “There is no pit so deep tha...
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