Pentecost 24 Romans 12:1-2 Now there’s a wonderful thought to take with us today! It’s one of those really simple and down-to-earth truths that can change your life forever. It’s a key to discovering the power of living as a Christian! “Don’t live like everybody else lives!” is the first part of this simple truth. You know how most people live, don’t you? Let me illustrate with a parable from our own family. When our kids were young, we could always tell how life was treating them by the way they came home from school. There were days when our daughter Bethany [READ MORE]

Luke 21:5-19;28 All it takes is a visit today to Temple Mount in Jerusalem to see the actual fulfillment of Jesus’ prediction in Luke 21. All that is left of the beautiful Temple the disciples were admiring that day long ago is a small part of the western wall. It is commonly called “The Wailing Wall” for around it gather every day devout Jews offering their prayers to God, inserting paper prayer requests into the spaces between the blocks, and praying for the restoration of the Temple which was destroyed in 70 AD. It is – in my mind – a [READ MORE]