“Now there was a woman in the city who lived an immoral life, and when she learned that Jesus was in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume, and came to Jesus, weeping and wetting His feet with her tears, wiping them with her hair and kissing His feet, anointing them with…
There were many women in the life of Jesus. They ranged in age from the little daughter of Jairus to the elderly prophetess Anna. There were the virtuous like Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his beloved aunt Elizabeth. The promiscuous loved Jesus like the woman caught in adultery, the street-wise Mary Magdalene, the multi-married…
Two weeks ago I put the finishing touches on my prayer letter with a passage from Colossians. Here’s what I wrote: “As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in Him, being rotted and built up in Christ and established in the faith.” Colossians 2:6,7 Yikes! A few of you caught the big…
“In Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God, for I do not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem to…
Devotional classics describe the kind of writing that has stood the test of time. For me, some of my favorite authors are known as the “Christian Mystics” men and women from mostly the 16th and 17th centuries who have penned some of the most beautiful words ever written… “In order to arrive at having pleasure…
We all have one life to live. A life of time. Our life is measured in terms of time. We are born in time. We grow in time. We learn in time. Time is precious. And it’s fleeting. It never stops. It doesn’t wait for anything. Once time is lost, it’s gone. Never to be…
New Year’s Day – 2018: It was a good start to a new year here at Little Church. With a pretty dense fog hanging over Laguna, we met New Year’s morning on the Easter Sunrise knoll high above the city, where we presented ourselves and the church to the Lord for 2018. “Take us, O…
Ever think you’d see the day when people would worship a robot? If you said ‘no’, think again. Google founder Anthony Levandowski is creating a new religion called “Way of the Future” which worships a god based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), developed through computer software. It makes sense to Levandowski, his new god. “If there…
I live in the realm of hope. It’s what gets me up every morning. Hope is the dream, the vision, the catalyst to believe God has something important in store for me on any given day. Hope makes life worth living. 1st Corinthians 13 says there are three tremendous assets in our Christian life –…
Your Responses to This Series on Rejection Richard Mason Rejection by those we love is a pain that reaches to the depths of our soul and tears us apart, but God provides the soul-restoring, pain-relieving balm that we desperately seek and desire. It is this pain that drives me closer and into a more intimate…