By Kingsley Baehr
By Kingsley Baehr
This old adage has more significance that just a statement about the weather.
Consider the following:
APRIL SHOWERS
MAY FLOWERS
1 Corinthians 15:58 - Therefore, ... be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
By Kingsley Baehr
That's why people had such a hard time believing it. His friends... His enemies too.
Frightened, cowering in a secret meeting place, his friends sat wondering what would become of them.
Frightened, wary, all over town His enemies were taking extreme precautions to insure that He couldn't do it.
No one really believed that He could. But then came the rumors!
Some woman said she had actually seen Him alive!
Two of His friends claimed that He had talked to them on their way home.
None of His enemies ever saw Him, but the rumors kept flying around.
Even some of their own men came with a very disturbing report, that had to be squelched with bribes and threats.
Then the mass meetings started!
Before large crowds, some of His known collaborators began insisting that He had done it!
...even when they met with skepticism and bias from the local authorities that quickly turned into vicious harrassment.
All the best evidence, which could have proved beyond reasonable doubt that He had NOT done it, mysteriously disappeared!
In fact, as years went by, and books began to appear, marshalling compelling evidence that He had done it, it became more and more difficult to insist that He had not, without seeming foolish.
Many decided that He had, and accepted His authority in their lives.
The rightness of their decision has been abundantly confirmed to them, because...
By Kingsley Baehr
FEBRUARY is frigid!
Temperatures below freezing, bedraggled by sneezing and wheezing! Its predominant color is gray.
Are you experiencing February? Huddling against the coldness of loneliness? Acutely conscious of spiritual sickness in your life? Color you gray?
But its central celebration is
The
The
"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness." - Jeremiah 31:3 "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28
Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. - John 13:1 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38,39
If instead of continuing to live a February gray life,you would like to become a
By Kingsley Baehr
The American Red
Cross has designated
Since
You will be redeemed [cured of your sin sickness]
He will be your Physician, your Medicine, your Medicaid, your Rehabilitation Center your Spiritual Security, and your Guarantor of Eternal Life!
What will you do with Jesus? Neutral you cannot be.Someday your heart will be asking, “What will He do with me?”
[Jesus] committed no sin…
– 1 Peter 2:22 a
… in [Jesus] there is no sin.
– 1 John 3:5 b
All have sinned…
– Romans 3:23 a
The wages of sin is death…
– Romans 6:23 a
And being found in human form [Jesus] humbled Himself… to the point of death, even death on a cross.
– Philippians 2:8
[Jesus] gave Himself for our sins…
– Galatians 1:4 a
…while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
– Romans 5:8 b
… the Lamb [Jesus] slain from the foundation of the world.
– Revelation 13:8
In [Jesus] we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins…
– Ephesians 1:7 a
By Kingsley Baehr
By Dr. David Jeremiah
When we are united by faith with Jesus Christ, we are adopted into God’s family (Romans 8:15-17).
by Dr. Charles Stanley
In 1 Timothy 6:12, Paul calls on believers to “fight the good fight of faith.”