by MJR | Jun 30, 2025 | Genuine Hope
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 5: 13 This week we will celebrate the freedom we enjoy in this country, but how many of us understand freedom? In the...
by MJR | Jun 27, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Something isn’t quite right. As I drove around Cincinnati today, I listened to a long podcast featuring a trio of “thinkers” discussing and often disagreeing on what is going on in the world. Whether we are considered “thinkers” or not, I think...
by MJR | Jun 26, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. Philippians 3:17 This afternoon Patrina and I briefly met a man who credited a single person as the one who “saved his life” by starting him on...
by MJR | Jun 25, 2025 | Genuine Hope
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take...
by MJR | Jun 24, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and...
by MJR | Jun 23, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4 On Saturday evening we learned that the United States dropped bombs in Iran. This afternoon I read of a armed man who was thwarted in his...
