William Booth’s Passion The story is told of General William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, and the day Queen Victoria of England asked to meet with him. Because she had heard so many favorable things about his work in the slums, she asked him for the secret of his success. “Your Majesty,”…

Let’s consider Romans The book of Romans was written by Paul, he wrote it in about 57 AD while he was living and working in Corinth. Paul's favorite places to work were where nobody had shared the gospel yet. He says later in Romans..... 20 It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ…

Opening thought Was God lonely? Is that why he created us? Oneness of God in the Old Testament In my reading this fall, I ran across a discussion of Old Testament truth that God is One verse the New testament idea of the Trinity. I thought I would start today 1st day of the year 1st week of the year…

This Advent season, we have been looking at the people and events involved with Jesus first coming and His birth. Last week we got to visualize what it might have been like for Joseph to discover his fiance was pregnant. He thought he knew what that meant. But being a righteous man, he was going to divorce…

Names We looked last time at one of the names given to Jesus, Emmanuel, which means what? God with us God with us, what peace that can bring to know that God is with us, That He knows us, as He says in Jeremiah 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord , “plans to prosper you and not…

Alone Sometimes we are alone, or un-supervised. That can be a fun, we might even do things we know we shouldn’t do just because we want to! But it can also be scary! Some of those things we want to do, might get us hurt or killed. Have you ever seen Mary Poppins? In the beginning of the original movie,…