When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives, my brothers, don’t resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends! Realise that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will […]
What the Children Deserve
It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children… (Luke 1:17) Lately, I heard someone give voice to an all-too-familiar phrase in the Christian lexicon. One that sounds piously self-defacing and is, I’m sure, intended to […]
Miracle at Cana
And on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; and Jesus also was invited, and His disciples, to the wedding. (John 2:1-2 NASB) It is at that time which marks the beginning of the ministry of Jesus on earth that we read in the […]