by MJR | Jun 13, 2025 | Genuine Hope
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the...
by MJR | Jun 12, 2025 | Genuine Hope
The Christianity of the Bible is a religion that is uncompromisingly supernatural. If we take away the supernatural, we take away Christianity. At the heart of the worldview of both Testaments is the idea that the realm of nature is created by One who transcends that...
by MJR | Jun 11, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But...
by MJR | Jun 10, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled...
by MJR | Jun 9, 2025 | Genuine Hope
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 While we are away this weekend, we listened to one of the pastors of our church...
by MJR | Jun 6, 2025 | Genuine Hope
Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. Jeremiah 32:17 Over the past few months, two friends of mine have lost their wives at young ages, both due to a fight with...
