Truth Inspires

Most people who know me have heard my testimony concerning the life changing work of the Lord Jesus, so I am wont to retell it. But I will say this, after I became a New Christian, I read the Bible through 3-4 times in around 90 days. And then after that, the New Testament several times over. Those who knew me best saw it as a phase--as something that was fleeting. But here I am, forty years later, still proclaiming that which had been proclaimed to me.  What is it that could effect such change in a person's life? How can a person go from a scoffer of Jesus one moment, to a lover of Jesus the next? Some will say it is psychological--a release of past guilt that makes a person feel better. If that were the case, then why was I able to continue in the faith? Those who do not know Jesus will never understand until they come to know Him for themselves.  In the biblical record there is a heap evidence that this type of lasting change is what actually occurs. When Jesus spoke to the...

The Bible teaches of an upcoming Wedding Day that the Church should be on cloud nine over!! Rev. 19:7-9 states: Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come , and His wife has made herself ready." And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!' " And he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God." The passage above speaks of two distinct events, the Marriage of the Lamb and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Both of these events are reminiscent of the ancient Jewish wedding ceremony where the Bride would become betrothed to her Groom and he would go away to build her a home. In the meantime she would wait anxiously for his return with shouts from his wedding party of "The Bridegroom Comes!" When the shouts were he...