“…having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints…” Ephesians 1:18 AMPC Some of us may be old enough to remember the old cartoons where a...
“Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.” Mark 4:24 “Take heed what you hear…” I used to look at those words as a stern warning. I realized later however, that...
“…Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8 Jesus spoke the above words as He closed the Parable of the Unjust Judge. Many have misinterpreted this parable in a couple of ways. First, believers have wrongly been taught...
And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’” Luke 16:26 The great gulf in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus was a real gulf of separation....
And the next day he took out two denarii [two day’s wages] and gave [them] to the innkeeper, saying, Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I [myself] will repay you when I return. Luke 10:35 AMPC The Good Samaritan is an example to all of us. From the...
“And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.” Matthew 25:2 The above scripture is an excerpt from the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Mt. 25:1-13). While there are many things to learn from this parable, among the most sobering is that wise and foolish...
