"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful." (Heb 10:23 NIV)Travelers cheques are the best way to keep money safe while traveling. Or at least this is what I was told. Their guarantee: If you lose a traveller's cheque,...
"Hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul." (Josh 22:5 NIV)"Serve him and hold fast to him." (Deut 13:4 NIV)The HCMS Skeena, a Canadian destroyer commissioned on June 10, 1931, was a reliable warship that did its job well. It fought in...
"Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called" (1 Tim 6:12 NIV)When the first permanent settlers to Iceland initially arrived in the area now known as Reykjavik, they must have been quite surprised. Remember in 874, cigarettes didn't even exist until...
"I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me." (Phil 3:12 NIV)One of my closest cousins lost consciousness one day. Completely unaware of what was happening in the conscious realm, she experienced something unique and delightful. She felt...
Do we have the authority to heal?It is clear that Jesus gave authority to His followers to heal: "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of...
"Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from...
"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it...