Advent

The LORD said, “The time is coming when I will fulfill the promise that I made to the people of Israel and Judah. At that time I will choose as king a righteous descendant of David. That king will do what is right and just throughout the land. The people of Judah and of Jerusalem will be rescued and will live in safety. The city will be called ‘The LORD Our Salvation.’ - Jeremiah 33:14-16

Dear Friends,

The Advent Season is upon us. It begins Sunday, December 2. The word Advent comes from the Latin word “adventus” meaning "a coming, approach, arrival”. During the season of Advent we look forward to the coming of Christ both at…

The Bottom Has Fallen Out Of My Life!

1-2 Help, GOD—the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help! Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy. 3-4 If you, GOD, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance? As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that’s why you’re worshiped. 5-6 I pray to GOD—my life a prayer—and wait for what he’ll say and do. My life’s on the line before God, my Lord, waiting and watching till morning, waiting and watching till morning. 7-8 O Israel, wait and watch for GOD—with GOD’s arrival comes love, with GOD’s arrival comes generous redemption. No doubt about it—he’ll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin. – Psalm 130, The Message

Dear Friends,

“N95”

That’s a new phrase I learned this week. It is a face mask rating determined by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health…

Squirrel Hill

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.

Revelation 7:9

My Friends in Christ,

My blog today may be long and rambling.

When I was in junior high and my first year of high school my family lived on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My father was stationed at a Naval Training Center located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh close to Carnegie-Mellon University. Oakland was close…

Halloween

21 But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, 23 since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; 24 they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed; 26 it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus. 27 Then what becomes…