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Acts 2:46-47 - Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.- Going to church in those days must have been very different than today. I wonder if it was even called church (which simply means an assembly, or the called together ones) yet. Remember these were not just early Christian ...

Isaiah 30:10 -11 - They say to the seers, “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!” The old testament prophet (what we would call a preacher) Isaiah is talking about the Israelites of his day here. If this scripture wasn't so tragic ...

Matthew 24:40 - 41, Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. Christ doesn't just pick people at random, decide he doesn't like them and leave them behind, so who are those who will be left? They (those who will not enter God's kingdom) are simply the ones who do not believe that Christ is the way the truth and the life (John 14:6). One of the things this scripture shows us is that there ...

1 Samuel 16:7 - But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” Proverbs 3:5 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Romans 10:9 - If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart ...

(A repost of my blog from Jan. 2012) 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! - A new year is often viewed as a new beginning, and we can think of ourselves as having a new beginning if we have come to Christ. The Apostle Paul wrote 2 Corinthians about 55 a.d. probably when he was in Macedonia, and in 5:17 notice that Paul says "has come," "has gone" and "is here," he never uses the words "might ...