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  Angels at the grave   Because He Lives we can face tomorrow and that is the power of Resurrection.   As We Gather here today on this Easter Sunday, I wish you all a Happy Easter. We all know that many Easter celebrations happen around the world and particularly Easter egg hunt is popular in the United States. I don't know how that came into being and what the history of that is. Maybe it was a marketing technique by the commercial world around us. But the Easter egg hunt taught me about the excitement particularly for the children to find the gift of that Easter egg in unexpected places. They look and search for these eggs and find some of them in the most unexpected places. Some eggs may have surprise messages inside. They open it and read that. Some people place c

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 Place of Forsakenness   Good Friday is the starkest day of the Christian year. This is why Christian worship spaces on this day have  no adornments, no gold in sight anywhere, no paraments, nothing at all on the Table, no pulpit Bible, nothing but a simple empty font.  Many churches have the tradition of stripping the altar on Good Friday night.  Stripping of the altar symbolizes the abandonment of Jesus by his disciples and the stripping of Jesus by the soldiers before his crucifixion. It represents the humiliation of Jesus and the consequences of sin as a preparation for the celebration of new life.  Jesus cried from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"  Matthew 27:46.  The cross is a place of forsakenness. Jesus goes there abandoned by a

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  Admirers or Disdiples?   There are admirers or Fans and then there are followers .  Admirers are also called fans whose interest is different from followers.   We all admire certain things in life, depending on our interests and outlook.  Some people admire the value of material things, white some admire spiritual things. Some people admire art, some others admire fame. A young mother who went down to the nursery at a hospital saw her young husband looking intensely through the window at his newborn baby who was asleep .  The mother could tell he was captivated by the scene as he stood there looking at the sleeping child.  She was so touched that finally she moved behind him and slipped her arm around him and said, “Honey what are you thinking about?”  He said, “I just

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  The Night Time of Life  "Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night."  (John 3:1) US President Joe Biden’s frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was evident with Biden captured on a hot mic saying that he and the Israeli leader will need to have a “come to Jesus” meeting. The comments by Biden came as he spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., on the floor of the House chamber following the State of the Union address on March 7, 2024. What is a come to Jesus moment? It is meant as a moment of sudden realization, comprehension, or recognition that often precipitates a major change. Many patients who emerge from illness or accidents may have a come-to-Jesus moment that reor