It’s Christmas. We celebrate the Christ, Jesus who was an enigma. He came into this world as a child of a working-class family from a notably unnoteworthy region of the country. He amazed people with His teaching and His miracles, but He always defied their expectations. When they expected Him to act like an averageContinue reading “It’s Friday…But What An Enigma!”
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It’s Friday…What You Really Need
Human nature is always craving something new and different. That’s why clothing styles change every season, TV schedules need constant refreshing, and exotic foods expand our trendy appetites. It’s also why many believers leave Christianity to try out other religions or some cult that has gotten their attention. When we’ve tried something and passed throughContinue reading “It’s Friday…What You Really Need”
It’s Friday…Out of Balance
“It’s a conspiracy.” That was the assessment of a paranoid priest warning a corrupt king of a prophet’s declaration of God’s plans for Israel. When the prophet Amos told the Truth of God, he was considered a troublemaker, a disturber of the national peace, a mudslinger void of constructive criticism. (Things haven’t changed much, haveContinue reading “It’s Friday…Out of Balance”
It’s Friday…There Is An Enormous Difference
In the arena of ideas, followers of Jesus are too often passive listeners. Our society consistently lifts up the sciences as factual and only humors faithful believers of The Creator as opinionated. But God has called us into the courtroom of this world, no matter where we find ourselves in it, to give a livingContinue reading “It’s Friday…There Is An Enormous Difference”
It’s Friday…We Have to Change
It’s difficult to watch the news these days, isn’t it? The vitriol is off the charts. It’s becoming more and more difficult to discern who is being honest. It seems that the best liars gain the upper hand. Do you ever imagine a culture in which there is no word to describe deception – noContinue reading “It’s Friday…We Have to Change”
It’s Friday…Mercy Demands It
We live in a truth-impaired world, don’t we? Everywhere we look proves it. We always need to be careful to read between the lines, to check out the fine print, to see through the smokescreen, and ignore the rumors and innuendo. The people we meet will usually put forth the image of themselves and ofContinue reading “It’s Friday…Mercy Demands It”
Vic Alvarado 