With Christmas fast approaching, I have been thinking a great deal about one of the names given to Jesus long before He ever touched the hay of Bethlehem’s manger. The Old Testament prophet was told that a virgin would give birth to the Messiah, and that His name would be Immanuel (the New Testament spelling is Emmanuel). That name means, …
December 14
“My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, ‘LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am’” (Psalm 39:3-4). Sometimes if we are not careful, we become taken with ourselves and the things we …