When an angel appears, you can bet that something amazing is going to happen! The amazing certainly took place when the angel Gabriel told Zechariah that he would be having a son. For Zechariah and his wife, Elizabeth, that dream had died long ago.
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Hope Unwrapped: The Light Revealed
Years ago, a group of us walked through Hezekiah’s tunnel in Jerusalem. In the days of King Hezekiah, it provided water for the city. This tunnel is about a third of a mile long and takes approximately thirty minutes to wade through from one opening to the other, with water mid-thigh deep in some sections.
Hope Unwrapped: “Be a light!”
“Be a light!” That’s what Beth Ann Schaeber said to her three boys every day. Before she dropped them off at a friend’s house or their sporting event or when they walked out the door to go to school, “Be a light!” was the last thing they heard.
Hope Unwrapped: Redeemed
Temptation comes from three sources: The world. The flesh. The devil (Ephesians 2:1-3). While all three of these sources are involved in temptation, one will lead the way. Today, let’s focus on the times when the world takes the lead.
Hope Unwrapped: Experiencing Contentment
One of the first classes I taught at The Bible Chapel was a class on parenting teenagers. Lori and I had two children at the time, both under the age of three. But I had been a middle school teacher, a middle school and high school coach, a youth group leader, and had read a lot of books on parenting, so I was an “expert”, or so I thought. About fifteen minutes into my introduction, I broke into a sweat.
Hope Unwrapped: Walking in Obedience
One writer captures our need to trust God when he writes, “You’re a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient.”[1] Trusting in ourselves, our achievements, and our accomplishments is a losing proposition. Great men and women of God were people of faith. Abraham trusted God’s leading, even when he didn’t know where he was going.