Spring of Hope

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 Big Need and a Small Budget      The feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle of the Lord that is recorded in all four gospels.  Turning water into wine is the only miracle that is recorded just in John’s Gospel. This story describes Phillip as a mediator.  This doesn’t mean that Philip was in any way superior or better, but because Philip was local to that community, a native of that area, Bethsaida.  (Ref. John 1:44 “Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida”). Philip was the logical one to be asked because Philip was from this area and he would know where to go and buy food. Just like Mary in the wedding at Cana, this should not lead us into any more than interpretation than that.    We all have responsibilities. We have individual and family

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   A Poweful Touch      A man went to see a psychiatrist because he was extremely depressed. The psychiatrist just could not get him to snap out of it. So he said to the man, “Tonight I want you to go to the circus in town because they have a clown named the Great Rinaldi, he is the funniest clown I have ever seen. Whenever I go to see the Great Rinaldi it always lifts my spirits.” The man responded. “You don’t understand doctor, I am the Great Rinaldi.” Life is made of joys and sorrows. The saying is that misery loves company and, if that’s true, there’s plenty of company. But the Bible teaches that you don’t have to be a victim. God wants you to have victory over them. We read in all the synoptic gospels about Jesus healing a woman with the issue of bleeding (Matthew 9:20–22, Mark 5:25–34, Luke 8:43–48). She had been

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   On the Mountain Top      After Apollo 15 mission to the moon, astronaut James Irwin wrote about his experience in space. He said that he was a witness to both the glory of God and and plight of man on earth when he experience the weightless body floating in space and seeing the rising crescent of the earth. Three disciples who have seen Jesus in all the chapters before, get the glimpse of a new Jesus in this chapter. They have experienced something they have not experienced, they saw, they heard and they received. Here we see two groups of witnesses to the transfiguration. Peter, James, and John became the earthly witnesses; these were the three that were to bear record on earth. Interestingly all three wrote epistles to the churches witnessing to the churches.   Mountains are to climb on.  Jesus will be there to cl