“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matt 11:28)
It is very popular today for churches to use the slogan “come just as you are.” This is actually part of the text in a contemporary song that is used at the end of Franklin Graham’s Festivals. His [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Come To Me
My Portion
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Ps 73:25-26
Having grown up in a family with six children, I have always understood the word “portion.” When a pie [...]
God Has No Grandchildren
They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.” John 4:42
It is the experience of every believer in Christ that at some point he comes to the same decision [...]
Coming to Jesus Step By Step
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him (John 11:45).
Whatever happened to these Jews who believed in Jesus following the raising of Lazarus? We don’t know and won’t know for sure until we get to heaven, but there are some [...]
Other Sheep
I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd (John 10:16).
The “sheep pen” here refers to the Jewish people who believed in Jesus. This would suggest that the “other sheep” are [...]
A Wrong Premise
Some of the Pharisees said, “This man [Jesus] is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” John 9:16.
The Jewish leaders’ comment about Jesus is wrong because their underlying premise is wrong. If they had said, “This man [Jesus] is not from God, for He made a false prophecy,” their statement would have [...]
Search the Scriptures
You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. John 5:39-40
The King James translation of these verses omits the first word “You,” thereby making this statement a command, and while it [...]
I Must Decrease
He must become greater; I must become less. John 3:30
These are the words of John the Baptist, but they should be the words of all who know Jesus. In Matthew 11:11, Jesus makes a statement that, though it defies our logic, communicates an essential truth. He said, “I tell you the truth: Among those [...]
Receive or Reject
He came to that which was His own, but His own did not receive Him. Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God (John 1:11-12).
This passage is one of the many “sad and glad” couplets in Scripture. It combines one [...]
Their Hearts Burned
They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:32
On the evening of the Resurrection of Jesus, as the word was beginning to circulate that something had happened to the body of Jesus, two men were walking [...]
