Scripture Snippets

    Genesis 49:8-12 8 “Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9 Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him? 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. 11 Binding his donkey to the vine, And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes are darker than wine, And his teeth whiter than milk. Have you ever looked into your family tree?  With today’s current technology it’s amazing how much easier it has become to dive in deep to your family history and see who was a part.  It’s interesting to find the history of our families and find out where we came from.  Genesis 49 begins to shed light on the famil

    Genesis 3:15 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” As we are looking at the advent season and reflecting on the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, let us look back at the very first Messianic prophecy of the Scriptures, Genesis 3:15.  As some of you may know if you have read this chapter before, this recalls the account of the fall of man.  Adam and Eve had sinned against God by partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  When approached by God, they continued in their sin by passing the blame onto the next person with Adam even boldly blaming it on God Himself.  When Adam and Eve realized they had sinned, they realized their nakedness and attempted to “cover up” their own sin with fig leaves.  Of course, this was not appropriate enough, another covering had to be made.   Adam and Eve both knew what the ultimate punishment was, death.  God however upholds t

  Matthew 6:1-15 6 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. 5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you open

  Matthew 18:21-22 21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. The Christmas season is a wonderful time of year, but a lot of times, it can be a difficult time of year.  Many of us go through different emotions and stresses this time of year.  We have the hustle and bustle of trying to get Christmas gifts, attend Christmas parties, go to church functions, go to kids Christmas plays, Christmas parades, cooking, etc.  It’s the most busiest time of year!    Many of us during this season fight different emotions.  Rather it be remembering the loss of a loved one, the stresses of life, or with the usual reuniting with family, or the absence of family, feelings of bitterness and unforgiveness can rear its ugly head.  So, how can these things affect a Christian during this Christmas season? Resentment has far-reaching an

    As we begin the season of Advent , we wait for the celebration of the birth of the Messiah.  During these set of devotionals, I’m not in per se going to keep up with what is normally taught in some form of catechism or tradition.  In fact, I’m rather distraught on how the Church has recently been teaching Advent and has made it more a “rigid traditional” system that really loses all meaning when it is taught like that.  It has become something that has limited itself to only defined reading and some archaic worship centered around a wreath of evergreen and colored candles or even just some chocolates that your kids get to eat every day. It just becomes another ordinance and becomes stale to the Christian sadly enough.  Now, if your church recognized that, please don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that your church is wrong.  Those things would be fine if the subject was expounded and taught properly by more and more churches, hopefully it is taught well in your church, for the major