Jehova Rapha

This title means that the LORD is our Healer. One of the spiritual gifts Paul recorded in a letter to the Corinthians is listed as “gifts of healing”. Notice, it is “gifts”, not singular gift, because our God manifests healings to the spirit, soul, and body. Scripture...

The Living God

Thirty times in Scripture, God reveals Himself as “the living God”. Fifteen times, in fact, in each Testament. When He uses the word “living” to describe Himself, He is conveying to us that He is active in the present tense or, simply put, “I...

Titles Of Our God

For the next month we will be looking at various titles ascribed to God. Of course there is no need to review the Biblical truth that these Three – Father, Son, and Spirit – are One. The Hebrew in Genesis 1:1 and Deut 6:4 bears this out because the term...

Jesus, The Friend Of Lepers

One day Jesus was in a leper’s house in Bethany. Now, a Pharisee would not be caught dead in a leper’s house because contact with those kinds of people would render him “unclean”. How do you suppose this attitude would effect an “evangelistic” ministry of the...

Jesus, The Hero Of The Untouchables

Jesus Christ came to this earth to save sinners, not destroy them. Theology has misrepresented the teaching of Scripture about the mission of Jesus. Some have portrayed an angry God; others a racist God. Today, to be “politically correct” (which is usually Biblically...

Holiness

What is holiness? The word itself speaks of being set apart for exclusive use. We can also say that anyone or anything that is holy is sacred. When Moses was getting his “call” from God into the ministry there in the desert, he was told to remove his sandals because...