by MJR | Aug 14, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. James 1: 17 It was a night I would not easily forget. Several years ago I sat in a room with a dozen men and listened...
by MJR | Aug 12, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Matthew 10:30 It’s inevitable. When I hear the verse above mentioned, many pastors or teachers end up making a bald joke of some kind, but the message of the passage is not about the number of hairs that are or...
by MJR | Aug 12, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Isaiah 64:8 This weekend while on vacation, Patrina and I encountered a group of people who think they know God, but the God they worship is a false god, a...
by MJR | Aug 9, 2024 | Genuine Hope
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self- controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our...
by MJR | Aug 8, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out!Tell others he has redeemed you from your enemies. Psalm 107:2 (NLT) Earlier this week, Patrina told me about a podcast she listened to featuring a prominent Orthodox Jew and a Roman Catholic. During the conversation, the...
by MJR | Aug 6, 2024 | Genuine Hope
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we...
