Read Matthew 22:34-40 The human body is comprised of three kinds of muscle: skeletal (the kind of muscle we typically imagine, that which covers our bones), smooth muscle (such as our stomachs and digestive tract) and cardiac (the muscle that is our hearts). Ironically, skeletal and...
Read 2 Timothy 1:1-7 She couldn’t stop crying. The Jacob’s Generation mission teams had just returned to their homes in Europe and throughout the USA. Everyone’s flights had landed and they’d unpacked their luggage and gone back to life as usual. One of the kitchen leaders, Tamika...
Read all of Isaiah 58 Fasting brings out the worst in us. Have you ever noticed how the Holy Spirit, through the words He inspired in the Old and New Testament, does not tiptoe around anyone’s feelings but says what He intends quite bluntly? Such is the...
Read Mark 2:18-22 Fasting brings out the best in us. When we fast, every night while we sleep as a minimum, our bodies undergo the most extraordinary process called “autophagy”. During this time, the body conducts a cycle of cellular clean-up and repair. The longer the body...
Read Psalm 16:11 & Hebrews 12:2 I’ll never forget the aged, Georgia preacher who chastised his congregation one Sunday saying, “The reason we can’t get folk to come visit our church is most of you look like you got baptized in pickle juice!”...
Read Isaiah 55 My, my, my! How we love the waffles of Belgium, the brötchen in Germany, the sumptuous Korean bakeries (not to mention the goodies created at the Brazilian-Japanese-American fusion bakery operated by our Directors, Cris and Meiko Reyno, in Okinawa, Japan)! How cruel does...
The Christmas season speaks to me of anticipation and expectation. I rejoice every year in the celebration of the anticipated birth of King Jesus. It is a season of rejoicing as we prepare for our celebrations with our loved ones and as we remember loved...
Remember to Rejoice !Two weeks and counting until Christmas. Last minute gift buying and all the fuss but: Chris Kettle from Luxembourg reflects. I always think of December as the 'Memory Month'. My parents and grandparents were Christians, and although there was not much money they made...
Let us REJOICEAs we come to the end of our first week in December in all our daily busyness, let usact like Mary that first Christmas. Remember and CLING with all the tenacity you can muster to the glorious truths about that Child called Jesus...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] [prisna-google-website-translator] Restoration can take place in many different ways. It could be an old building, a street, a relationship, a life, a home, a city and so on… But today I would like to turn our attention to Psalm 51:10 -...