Vintage Heart

"Then Pilate said to him, 'So you are a king?' Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world- to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." -John 18:37 (ESV) And so we stand in the midst of the week that changed human history forever. As I was studying through the scriptures in preparation for Good Friday and Easter, I was using my spiral bound ESV study bible. But in

And coupled with the crippling realization of who Jesus was was the very knowledge that he knew and saw the darkest of sins she’d committed. He hadn’t forgotten her, even when she’d forgotten him. And he bore the name of El Roi, the God who sees. Ayala’s father had always marveled at that name for Yahweh. That the Lord of Heaven and Earth stepped close to His people and saw them for who they were.

Ayala, our God is constantly finding his way back to his people. He doesn’t abandon us at the slightest hardship. And neither will his son.”

The eternal, omnipotent God of Isreal was being held by a poor carpenter.

"My heart is filled with thankfulness to Him who bore my pain. Who plumbed the depths of my disgrace and gave me life again. Who crushed my curse of sinfulness and clothed me in His light, and wrote His law of righteousness with power upon my heart!" ~Keith and Kristyn Getty, My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness Wow. November has just flown by, and I don't know whether to laugh or cry about that.... As we approach Thanksgiving, the topic of thankfulness and grace has been

What if we treated July 4th like Thanksgiving?