Selected Scriptures To understand the Good News we must first understand the Bad News, namely that humankind sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Why are there so much pain and brokenness about us? As Christians we answer: ‘It was caused by the Fall’. We cannot fix this, but need someone bigger than…
Genesis 18 Introduction We see Abraham in the presence of God, but he is seeing three men.This chapter emphasizes Abraham’s hospitality and the revelation of God’s plan in relation to Abraham’s future and the future of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham showed hospitality to three men – believed by many to be a theophany, one of…
2 Corinthians 1:15-24 Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace. I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. Was…
Isaiah 5:18-23 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, who say: “Let Him be quick, let Him speed His work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”Woe…
Matthew 2:1-12 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, “Where is He who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him.”When Herod the king…
Psalm 139 King David experienced many challenges, as we do in our day and age – like abortionists who mess up God’s weaving in the wombs of expecting mothers. We see the following in this Psalm: The Psalmist ends by asking God to lead him in the way everlasting, which is not a thing or…
Luke 2v1-7 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea,…
Luke 1:46-55And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for He has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His Name. And His…
Luke 1v26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord…
2 Corinthians 1v12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you. (ESV) Background: We saw last week that the only thing that helps us is the will…