Read Time: 4 Minutes Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party” was a 1963 party anthem, topping the charts in many countries including the US Billboard Hot 100. What does a party song have to do with discipleship? This is about a royal party! The Book of Esther opens with King Xerxes’…
Read Time: 3 minutes ‘The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took…
Read Time: 3 minutes “On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled.” Luke 6:6 NIV The Beautiful Gate cripple sat at the gate but this man made it in. However, his right hand was shriveled, withered. Something…
Read Time: 4 Minutes January 12, 2007 in a Washington D.C metro station, a man in a T-shirt and baseball cap, stood beside a garbage can playing a violin. Crowds of passengers walked on by, with only seven people paying him any meaningful attention. In the end he raised a…
2 Minutes Read Joseph shared two dreams with his brothers. Aside from his brothers’ jealousy, and his father’s introspection, what else did you notice? Maybe you noticed that at both times, Joseph needed not interpret his dream to his brothers? The family got the accurate meaning pronto! Which would indicate…
Read Time 2 Minutes “This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, but I came with my troops and rescued him, for I had learned that he is a Roman citizen” (Acts 23:27 NIV). I paraphrase the commander, “it would not have mattered to…
Read Time: 2 Minutes Every coma, every period, every phrase and every sentence in God’s word, no matter how inconsequential it may appear has a revelation behind it. God, if he wants to, can reroute your entire life using an obscure dot in an obscure line from His word. Listening…
Read Time: 5 Minutes King Balak of Moab hired Prophet Balaam to curse the Israelites. God forbade the prophet from cursing but rather blessed them. In doing that he said these deep prophetic and revelatory words: “I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of…
Read Time: 1 Minute – Sola Oki (Guest Writer) “From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then…
2 Minutes Read The Bible was not originally broken into chapters and verses. Chapters were introduced around 1227 AD, with verses added much later. So, verse 18 being the last verse of Exodus 31 and verse 1 of Exodus 32 would have originally read like this, (18 ) “when the…
