Gospel

"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert." Isaiah 43:18-19.  There have been some people clearing land not too far from our house.  It used to be completely wooded and now there are only two or three trees that have been left standing on this one part of the property.  I've passed by there numerous times, and I can't help but wonder why they left this one oak tree.  It [...]

I was listening to some music today and there was a song I hadn't listened to before come up.  The name of the song was, "The Scar that Held my Name".  In the song the singer talks about having a dream and seeing Jesus.  In the dream Jesus took His robe off and showed the singer a scar on His back that held the singer's name.  Jesus was whipped to the point where one more lash would have killed a normal human, and then he walked a little over a mile I believe; uphill for a good portion of the trip, [...]

Do you ever have that one shirt that you just really liked?  It fit well, looked good, felt good, but then it gets stained somehow.  I have a few of those myself.  We're not perfect, we mess up.  We may spill something on it, or we may drop a piece of food on it.  We may get into some grease or something that will permanently stain that garment.  It's a pain to deal with, but, there will come a day when we won't have to deal with it anymore.  When we get to Heaven, we will wear clean robes, made of [...]

I heard about a pole taken a while back, and I may have mentioned this in a recent devotional, that was taken among church goers and/or church members.  There were between 70 and 80 percent of these church goers that still believed that one can go to heaven by doing good deeds.  This response was from Christian church goers.  We cannot earn salvation.  God is Holy and cannot be with sin, and therefore we cannot get into heaven without our sins being forgiven.  Because God is Holy He has to do what is right and see that sin is punished.  So [...]