by MJR | Aug 12, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Matthew 10:30 It’s inevitable. When I hear the verse above mentioned, many pastors or teachers end up making a bald joke of some kind, but the message of the passage is not about the number of hairs that are or...
by MJR | Aug 12, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Isaiah 64:8 This weekend while on vacation, Patrina and I encountered a group of people who think they know God, but the God they worship is a false god, a...
by MJR | Aug 9, 2024 | Genuine Hope
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self- controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our...
by MJR | Aug 8, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out!Tell others he has redeemed you from your enemies. Psalm 107:2 (NLT) Earlier this week, Patrina told me about a podcast she listened to featuring a prominent Orthodox Jew and a Roman Catholic. During the conversation, the...
by MJR | Aug 6, 2024 | Genuine Hope
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we...
by MJR | Aug 5, 2024 | Genuine Hope
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Psalm 14:1a Blaise Pascal was a mathematician and scientist who lived during the 1600’s. Pascal was also a follower of Christ who felt that Faith was largely a matter of the heart. Then as now, many people...