Life Marks: A TIME TO GIVE THANKS I’d like to begin by asking a question: “When is the best time to give thanks?” Our natural inclination is to “give thanks” when things are going well. When we love our job, and job security appears to be intact; when we are able

Life Marks: LOVE – A GIFT FROM GOD During a conversation with some of the religious leaders, Jesus was asked to give his opinion about which of the commandments (and there were hundreds of them) was the greatest of all. As we saw last week, His answer was simple and

Life Marks: BEYOND THE TRASH The New Testament spends a great deal of time talking about developing our character so that our lives will reflect the character of Jesus. When the Holy Spirit enters a person’s life, there are plenty of changes that need to take place as we move from

Life Marks: NO NEED TO PERISH If you remember from last week, we spent some time trying to understand the SADD world in which we live, a world complete with “Sin,” “Accidents,” “Disease,” and “Disasters.” We focused upon the story of Job, who felt that God was targeting him for maximum

Life Marks: LIVING IN A SADD WORLD I’ve often used the acronym SADD to describe the world in which we live. The “S” stands for Sin – People sin against us either in word or in deed. That’s always painful, and we have all taken the brunt of another person’s

Life Marks: TAKING OUT THE TRASH I suspect that from the time you were a little child, you disliked (a softer word than “hated,” although some of you might have preferred I used it) doing chores. Whether they were daily or weekly, most of the time it brought on a sense

Life Marks – OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST Last week was pretty involved in helping you to understand how Jesus could qualify as our High Priest even though he did not descend (through his earthly parents, Joseph and Mary) from the tribe of Levi, from which Aaron, Moses’ brother, was the

Life Marks: OUR HIGH PRIEST The New Testament Book of Hebrews was written primarily to Jewish Christians, probably living in Italy, around AD 64. In AD 49, Emperor Claudius banished all Jews from Rome because of disturbances and riots over a man named Cristos! Apparently, Jewish Christians from around the

Life Marks: SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES When a person comes to Christ to receive salvation, they come to an actual “living stone,” a Stone rejected by men but “choice and precious” in the sight of God. And this Stone is not just any stone, but the Living Cornerstone, who is none other

Life Marks: SIGNIFICANT (Part 4) As we have seen previously, understanding our spiritual heritage in the Old Covenant is vitally important for us to understand our significance in Christ today. In God’s plan, the Old Covenant Temple was just temporary, a “shadow” of better things to come. God always knew