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Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  Sufficient Grace     2 Corinthians 12:5-10 That last sentence Paul speaks in this passage—“For when I am weak, then I am strong”—sounds like a contradiction, doesn’t it? What do we call that in English? An oxymoron? I’ve heard that word mostly here in America. But that’s exactly what it is: “When I am weak, then I am strong.” That’s the message of Christ. Everything Christ preached seems to go against the way the world works. Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are those who mourn. What? How is mourning a blessing? But that’s the way of the Kingdom of God—upside-down thinking compared to the world we live in. When we are weak, Paul says, we actually become strong. Why? Becaus...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  An Unexpected Answer     In 1 Kings 19:1–10, we witness a moment of deep despair in the life of one of the greatest prophets to ever walk the earth—Elijah. This mighty man of God, who had just triumphed over the prophets of Baal in a dramatic showdown on Mount Carmel, suddenly finds himself running for his life. Jezebel, the wicked queen of Israel, vowed to kill him within twenty-four hours after learning how he had slaughtered her prophets. Fear gripped Elijah’s heart, and he fled to Beersheba, leaving behind his servant and wandering alone into the wilderness. There, under the shade of a solitary broom tree, he sat down, broken and defeated, and asked God to take his life. "It is enough now, O Lo...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  A For Sucha Time as This - A Fathers Day Message     “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14) The book of Esther is the story of an orphan girl who saved a nation by acting at the right time. It is also the story of a man who adopted the orphan girl as his own child and raised her to become the queen of Persia.  The author of the book of Esther is unknown. Some scholars suggest it is Mordecai (see Esther 9:20-22 and Esther 9:29-31). Others propose Ezra or possibly Nehemiah because the ...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now              Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Confused, Confirmed and Comforted    Luke 24:13–32 Have you ever gone through something so confusing, so disappointing, that all you could do was talk it out with someone—just to make sense of it? That’s exactly what we see in Luke 24:13–32. Two followers of Jesus were walking to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. Their hearts were heavy. Their minds were filled with questions. Their dreams felt shattered. As they walked and talked about everything that had happened—Jesus’ arrest, crucifixion, and now the strange reports of an empty tomb—someone came alongside them. A stranger. Or so they thought. It was Jesus. But they didn’t recognize Him. The very One they were talking about—the One they misse...