In Chapter 1 Haggai rebukes them and tells them to consider their ways. They get right, they get to work. These are good people who are the children of God, they seem pliable. This is one of the few places that the children of Israel actually obeyed God when He corrected them. They get to […]
Have you ever been ignored? How did it make you feel? Have you ever been cut-off? Has anyone ever told you something, or promised something and forgot? Life can be cruel. Life can be mean. Life can be unkind and brutal on human emotion. It is one thing to experience these emotions with people, it’s another to feel them […]
What is an Epistle?—One of the letters, written openly, adopted as books of the New Testament. Paul authored 7 canonized letters. These are the letters or epistles to Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colosse, and Thessalonica. What is an Apostle?—Apostle (Gk. Apostolos). Envoy, ambassador, or messenger commissioned to carry out the instructions of the commissioning […]
In our first message here from the beatitudes we explored the setting and the context of the Word blessed. Makarios=happy, satisfied, inwardly content. The first beatitude was poor in spirit! Thank God that’s the starting point! We are destitute, unable to provide for ourselves. We are in complete need of everything from God spiritually. We must […]