Here are a few random thoughts as we turn the page for another go around the sun. About divine love, relationship with God and new life in ...

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Isr...

Sing, Daughter Zion; shout aloud, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem! The LORD has taken away your punishme...

“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger...

“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messe...

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah. In those days and ...

In Jesus the Messiah, we “participate in the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4), which is what God intended for us from the very beginning when h...

More thoughts culled from my random file. About divine love, relationship with God and new life in Christ. Some have come to me in moments ...

It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell [ Gehenna ], where “the worms th...

Last time, we looked at the Greek word Hades , which is usually translated as “hell” in most English versions. It refers to the “ realm...

Hell, as popularly conceived, has long been a sort of kitchen drawer, a jumble of assorted ideas stuffed into one handy catch-all. Ther...

The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I kno...

On my Facebook page the other day, I posted a quote by George McDonald: “In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and t...

Holiness is set-apartness . God’s set-apartness is his uniqueness. He is not merely a being, not even the greatest of all beings. He i...

Over the years, and especially with the advent of social media, I have come to realize that no matter what I say, there is always going to ...

The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be t...

More thoughts culled from my random file. About divine love, relationship with God and new life in Christ. Some have come to me in moments ...

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not fou...