by MJR | Nov 10, 2022 | Genuine Hope
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart....
by MJR | Nov 9, 2022 | Genuine Hope
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. Ephesians 5:4 Double Entendre: a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent. Upright living...
by MJR | Nov 8, 2022 | Genuine Hope
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. Colossians 3:2 When Paul wrote his letter to the Colossians, he was concerned with how their faith was developing. There were those who wanted to impose adherence to a set of rules that had...
by MJR | Nov 7, 2022 | Genuine Hope
In his book, The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.” In the third chapter of Colossians, Paul tells each of us to put away what is...
by MJR | Nov 4, 2022 | Genuine Hope
Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.2 Kings 23:25 At a meeting last week in San Diego, I had breakfast...
by MJR | Nov 3, 2022 | Genuine Hope
Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the...
