A lesson from Jonah and David about stubbornness

As we look into the second chapter of Jonah in the belly of the great fish, we must not disconnect the context from 1.17, where we learned that our man Jonah was swallowed up by the great fish that The Lord had prepared for him. The Hebrew word for swallowed here...

The Peril Of Being Lukewarm

In Jesus’ message to the church of Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22), He does not have one word of commendation for them. It is ironic because they boasted of their riches and material possessions, which, no doubt, they interpreted as being a sign of God’s blessing. On...

5 ingredients of true repentance

“And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their...

To Him Who Overcomes

As we come to a close in our study of the letters of Jesus to the seven churches, we see that in each letter, there was a specific promise given to those who overcome (Revelation 2:7,11,17, 26; 3:5,12,21). We will also see later on in this prophetic book that one last...

Repentance, the Pathway to Real Change

Luke 5.31,32 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole (healthy) need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call...