Echoes in Eternity All these people were still living by faith when they died. … Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. ––Hebrews 11:13,16 The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC led to the ascension of the first Roman emperor, Caesar’s hand-picked […]
Credited As Righteousness [God] took [Abraham] outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. ––Genesis 15:5-6 Righteousness NOUN : the quality or […]
Scorning Shame And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ––Hebrews 12:1-2 Jesus saw a few moves ahead, while Satan only […]
Alea Iacta Est When your children ask their fathers in times to come, “What do these stones mean?” then you shall let your children know, “Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.” Joshua 4:21-22, (ESV) Julius Caesar weighed his options and made a decision that would lead to civil war: Marching his […]
From Flint to Fountain The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the […]
Facing Gethsemane The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ––1 Corinthians 2:14 The night before the crucifixion, in the Garden of Gethsemane, the die was cast. Jesus wrestled with his […]
Sweet Waters So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” Then he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. Exodus 15:24-25 nasb The human body can go about 40-50 days without food. But deprive it of water and you’re dead in […]
Fruits and Leaves A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. —Matthew 7:18-20 Perhaps the third-most famous tree mentioned in the Bible––after the Tree of Life […]
Bitterness the Thief Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. ––Ephesians 4:31-32 Ruth’s story in the Bible, if summarized as a Netflix movie description: “A foreign widow emigrates to a […]
Friends for Life Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father […]
