Jesus amazed his listeners in explaining deep spiritual truths by using common things and situations around him to illustrate a point: sheep, goats, coins, candles, salt, cities, sand, grain, wine, water, bread, family relationships, farming, fishing, storms, birth, death and a multitude of other metaphors. Life Lessons from Chess is [...]
Friday, April 10, 2009
“Father, Into Thy hands I commend my spirit” “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” Do you remember your childhood and praying those words before you went to sleep? Hebrew children were [...]
Thursday, April 9, 2009
“It Is Finished” In his now famous speech, “Yes We Can” Senator (now President) Barach Obama spoke these words…”We are hungry for change and we are ready to believe again.” In November 2008 that hunger for change and desire to believe in something greater saw the United States of America elect its first African American [...]
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. John 19:28-29 (NRSV) Surely the [...]
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
“My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?” It was the most gut-wrenching cry of loneliness in history, and it came not from a prisoner or a widow or a patient – it came from a hill, from a cross, from a Messiah. In Matthew 27:45-46 we read “Now from the sixth hour darkness [...]
Monday, April 6, 2009
John 19: 25,26 NIV “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is [...]
Friday, April 3, 2009
“He replied, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise’.” (Luke 23:43) Paradise! I’m not sure what kind of images are evoked by this word for you, but the biblical world helps us. Genesis sets humanity in a garden, and John of Patmos refers to it as “the paradise of God” [...]
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Our North American culture has experienced a desire to better understand the sordid, and complex history that was the African transatlantic slave trade. Robert Jeffery offers the Wesleyan Perspective on slavery and helps us work through this critical issue.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Luke 23:34 Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing. These were the words of Jesus as he hung on the cross between two criminals, all of whom were to be executed. Father, forgive them. Words of forgiveness are often [...]
Monday, June 9, 2008
Commissioning Book 2008 is hot off the press! Purchase your book today and share in the memories of CFOT. Buy a piece of Salvation Army history; great for friends, families, and supporters of the GFW and WFC sessions. Commissioning Books are only $5.00 (plus shipping and handling) and are available today.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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