Category: Gravitas

Matthew 23:13 – 15 13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a…

Age has a way of bringing us to a point where we can’t help but reflect on things. Thoughts of what could have been or should have been ruminate in our minds and although we can’t get back the years, we can choose to make the most of the years left. Although I have accomplished…

Mark 14:50: “And they all left him and fled” It happens often in life when you are in a pinch. Folks try to figure out who they can trust and turn to or who is for or against them. When you take a stand for what is right and based on principle, you may just…

God spoke these words to the prophet Isaiah as an indicator of His ongoing plan to shape His people into something worthy of His name. (ESV) Isaiah 48:8-11 sets the stage: 8 “You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would…

Saints we are living in a time of great uncertainty. Questions arise in our minds as to what is next, who knows what they are talking about, competency, finances, health, fellowship, and the purpose in the season we are going through. Some of the things we have dreamed about, sacrificed for, labored and prayed over,…

John 11: 45-53   45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do?…

John 10:27 ESV My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ISAIAH 65:2 ESV I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices… MATTHEW 26:36-44 ESV 36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called…

1 Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be misled:” ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’ Often people look at relationships in terms of what they have in common with others, what they can get, and ultimatedly what’s in it for them. I have always kept a small circle and I think that is one of the wisest decisions…

The Call of Gideon Judges 6:11-16 ESV 11 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man…

ESV Matthew 16:1-4: 1. And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2.He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3. And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red…