For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God. —Hebrews 3:4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrpeNaNh84 Now after watching this video someone comes along and tells you that this house just appeared or that it built itself and adapted to its surroundings over a very long period of time. You tell them adamantly that there were a bunch of contractors that built it over a very short period of time, but the person you are talking with stands his ground and continues to tell you that this house just evolved out of nothing. Yeh, that person would have a problem. Yet we are clearly told that “the one who…

He (Jesus) suffered death for us, he is now “crowned with glory and honor.” Yes, by God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone. —Hebrews 2:9 About every half second there is a death on this planet. I read where it is estimated that there have been about 100 billion people that have lived on earth up until now. That means about 93 million people have died. That is a lot of sorrow and pain. Jesus took it all at the cross. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ We cannot fathom the immensity of what Jesus did on the cross for us when He “suffered death for us” and “tasted death for everyone.” Not only that…

The Son… sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. —Hebrews 1:3 Oh no, it’s the end of the world. What can we do? Climate cooling warming change is going to destroy us. The seas are going to rise! Homes will be destroyed! People are going to starve! The atomic bomb will destroy the world. What are we going to do? Do something! Ingredients for a perfect storm! http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/us/feat-doomsday-clock-three-minutes-midnight/ We definitely live in dangerous times, but one scheme of the devil is to cause confusion, to create crisis so people will bend to things that they do not usually bend to. There are evil forces seeking to destroy. Yes,…

Our people must learn to do good by meeting the urgent needs of others; then they will not be unproductive. —Titus 3:14 So you know of an urgent need? Are you able and desiring to help? Will you take the step and actually help? You know the urgent needs in your sphere of influence. Which will you help with? As followers of Jesus we have to learn not to be self-focused but others focused. That does not mean that we do not look to our own interests, but it does mean that we are not concern with just our own interests. We need to learn to be concerned with the…

He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds. —Titus 2:14 We were dead in sin, separated from God and children of wrath (Ephesians 2:1-3). Jesus was our “Peace Child” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfjYFcLdEJ0 . Through Him we have peace with God (Romans 5:1) and in Him we can have the “peace of God which passes all understanding” (Philippians 4:6-7). When we begin to grasp what this means we are overwhelmed with gratitude. God brought us into peace with Himself, no longer His enemies (Romans 5:10). We are created in Christ Jesus for…