Posts from March 2023

Sharing Your Toys

Did your Mom make you share your toys when you were little? You got a new toy. It’s a toy car or a play gun or a doll or an Octonauts Above and Beyond Play Set and it is all yours and nobody else plays with it but you, until the neighbor kid comes over or a sibling wants to play. You tell them “NO! My toy.” All Moms have supersonic hearing. It’s God’s gift to her for all she went through…

The Enemies of Jesus

After the birth of Jesus, Joseph is told in a dream to take Mary and their Son to Egypt to avoid the threat against his life from Herod (Matthew 2:13). In this short passage we learn a few truths about the enemies of Jesus. TO THE ENEMIES OF JESUS, NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS: …Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him. – Matthew 2:13 Herod was fearful of losing his power and authority. He was so filled…

What do you want from Jesus?

We can read in John’s gospel (John 6:1-14) of how Jesus fed about 5,000 people with only 5 barley loaves and 2 fish. When everyone was filled, there were 12 baskets full of leftovers! How that happens, I don’t know, but Jesus does. Later, some of those folks were still looking for him, but he said, “…you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.” – John 6:26 The signs proved…