A passport is essential for international travel. You cannot leave the country without one. Each country has essential requirements for their passports. If these are missing, you simply cannot get a passport. Salvation is God’s passport to heaven. Two of the essentials to get such a passport are faith and forgiveness. The resurrection of Jesus […]
Humans have many things in common. We each have two legs, two arms, two eyes, and two ears. We each have a brain, a heart, and a nervous system. Though we vary in size, shape, and colour, we all have red blood. Humans typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes, or 46 chromosomes in total. Besides […]
One of my favourite vegetables to grow in the summer is tromboncino. They are resistant to disease and pest, taste great, and they produce abundantly. Each year, we allow one of the fruits to fully mature so that we can harvest the seeds. These are the seeds from just one fruit. Not only does one […]
Candles today come in many shapes, sizes, colours, and fragrances. Candles are used at weddings, at special dinners, for romantic evenings, at Christmas, and just for enjoyment. This evening, we are going to look at another kind of candle that has a very important purpose. Transition (Proverbs 20:27) “The spirit of man is the candle […]
The character of God as revealed in the first 18 verses (i.e., His omnipresence, His omniscience, and His omnipotence) gave David comfort and hope. It ought to do the same for you and me. However, those same qualities of God condemn the wicked. He created them for His glory, He sees all that they do, […]
Read Psalm 139:1-18, focussing on v.13-18. According to one report, an adult human body has 7 octillion atoms (i.e., 7 with 27 “0’s”). https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/27/20-human-body-facts-science In another article, I learned that “each day, about 2 billion of the body’s cells wear out and are replaced. Thus, the body is always rebuilding itself. Every 15 to 30 […]
We have all played the game “Hide and Seek”. You may call it by another name, but it is when everyone hides, and one person tries to find those hiding. If we are not careful, we will try to play “Hide and Seek” with God. We run and hide from God and do things we […]
The Prophet Isaiah wrote, (Isaiah 57:21) “There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” Similarly, Solomon penned, (Proverbs 28:1) “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.” Why are the wicked nervous and lacking peace? It is because the wicked are hiding secrets that they do […]
One of the first words children learn is the word “mine”. Many childhood fights occur when one child takes a toy from another child and says, “Mine!” We are selfish people from our earliest days. To bring us out of our selfishness and back to reality, God gave us Psalm 24:1. Read it! Transition This […]
The scribes and Pharisees had attacked Jesus, probably at Capernaum, for allowing his disciples to eat without the traditional hand-washing ceremony, Jesus countered their words with a sharp rebuke (Mt 15:1-20). Perhaps, that evening as Jesus and his disciples sat around the fire eating, he said, “Early tomorrow morning, we will travel north for a […]