Remembering Well

Remembering Well

Remember what I told you . . . (John 15:20) Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead . . . (2 Tim. 2:8) What riches await us when we take up the Scriptural reminders to remember Jesus Christ, and all He has taught and told us! What treasures we have stored away...
The Sacrament of the Present Moment

The Sacrament of the Present Moment

The other day, I found myself being deeply touched as I meditated again on the way Jesus knew His Father. (John 14:8-11ff) ) Teaching about His great love for all His children, He describes the way in which a dad understood his relationship with his grumpy son: “Son,...
Israel: an ongoing tension

Israel: an ongoing tension

When it comes to the end-times, there have always been plenty of people willing to come up with detailed charts, graphs and line-ups of key nations. Even in the early church there were those who believed they were living in the last of the last days. In our own time,...
Lead such lives that God can answer your prayers

Lead such lives that God can answer your prayers

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. (Ps. 66:18-19) At the height of the Cold War, a Russian believer being held in a concentration camp for his faith, smuggled a message to the...