Tag Archives: redemption

Why We Don’t Need Signs and Wonders

Why don’t we need signs and wonders to prove where we stand with God? Won’t they make us more spiritual or a better class of Christian? No. Because God has given us all we need for the Christian life Colossians tells us. What has he given us exactly? If we have accepted Jesus God has ‘qualified us’ just as he did the Colossian Christians ‘to share in the inheritance of the saints of light,’ Colossians 1:12. God had ‘delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,’ Colossians 1:13. It is through … Continue reading →

Tearing Down Walls and Starting New

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One of the hardest things to come to grips with before I’d truly turned my life over to God is that God was really capable of changing me. I lacked the faith He would because I’d cried out to Him and didn’t initially see anything great take place. Perhaps the reason I wasn’t seeing change in my life was because I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready to let go of my old life. Once I was ready, I was at a point where I wanted to throw everything down. This is exactly what God wanted and needed from me. Because … Continue reading →

Whispers from Yesterday – Robin Lee Hatcher

Karen Butler has a past that won’t leave her alone. Her father was convicted of stealing large quantities of money from his company, and solved the problem by taking his own life. Now Karen feels alone, abandoned, unloved, and betrayed, and feels that she should take her own life as well. Isn’t that how it’s done? But when an attempt to slit her wrists fails, she’s taken in by Mac, her father’s good friend and lawyer, and he helps her mend and recover. But now Karen has nowhere to go. She’s penniless and alone. Her only living relative now is … Continue reading →

Parables: The New Cloth/Old Garment, New Wine/Old Bottles

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I have never really understood what Jesus was talking about when he gave the parable about not putting a piece of new cloth on an old garment. All four of the gospels record this parable, so the meaning must be important for us to understand. The text of Matthew 9:16-17 says, “No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth … Continue reading →

Snow

“For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength.” (Job 37:6) I awoke to see a pristine beauty falling outside my window from the sky. It is our first snow of the season. Blanketing the ground, it looks as if everything is in harmony. A crisp clean air fills the lungs of young children playing in the new scenery. “Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.” —Elvina M. Hall, 1865 When I look … Continue reading →