Christ’s first coming was in love and grace, for the purposes of salvation. We need to spread the Gospel because when He returns it will be in judgement.
In Luke 19:1-10 God clearly laid it on Zaccheus’s heart to see Jesus, he behaved in a manner frowned upon by his fellow Jews. And even worse Zaccheus was a chief of tax collectors in Jericho. And yet God drew his heart to Him and saved Zaccheus from his sin. Only through Jesus can we…
Christ tells us of the need to have a little child’s faith in order to receive the kingdom. This is the kind of faith where a child knows they are loved and can fully trust the ones taking care of them. This is an example Jesus uses on several occasions so it is clearly important…
Why should we persist in prayer? Oftentimes it seems that God is not listening. But that is never the case. As Jesus shows from this parable, God is always listening. Knowing this, we persist and by doing so, we are strengthened in our faith.