2 Timothy 1:10

By Elizabeth Prata Christmas means baby Jesus. Everybody loves the baby. The swaddling clothes (so cute!) the manger (awww, really?), the Wise Man (distinguished solemnity). It is a tremendous stor……

Fear has been defeated! While I totally believe that, we still have to live with fear in this world. I had an experience as a teenager that taught me…

Genesis 2:9 tells us, “out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the……

Creative Tuesdays – A bouquet This week the challenge was to take the flower we created from last week and add it to a bouquet. Here is last week’s flower – a carnation. And this week here is my bouquet. Of course I had to look up verses about flowers. I thought about the short… Continue reading Creative Tuesdays – A bouquet…

New Jerusalem is a city in God’s new creation and is a city in resurrection. First Corinthians 15 is a chapter on resurrection; verses 50-54 have multiple occurrences of incorruptible and incorrupt……

In Revelation 22:1-2 John tells us that in New Jerusalem he saw “a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. And on……

Creative Tuesdays – A bouquet This week the challenge was to take the flower we created from last week and add it to a bouquet. Here is last week’s flower – a carnation. And this week here is my bouquet. Of course I had to look up verses about flowers. I thought about the short… Continue reading Creative Tuesdays – A bouquet…

A Matter of Life and Death Paul does not sugarcoat the truth: we are sinners and deserve death. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned. (Romans 5:12 CSB) Death We inherited death from our ancesto ……

“And Sarah died” (Genesis 23:2). In a previous post I wrote about the death of Professor Norman Gottwald, my former professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Gottwald was……

In the Psalms we can see many prophecies and allusions to Christ and God’s house and city. These ultimately point to New Jerusalem with Christ as its center to be God’s eternal house and city……