Author Archives: asacredrebel

Have you ever wanted something really bad? Have you ever wanted something so much that you did not think you could live without it? Have you ever wanted something but not had the resources to get it? Or how about at Christmas or your birthday, have you made a list and checked about a billionContinue reading “χαρις is given”

Luke 24:13-35Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.Continue reading “Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?”

John 19:38-42And after these things Joseph of Arimethia, who is a disciple of Jesus secretly because of the fear of the Jews, requested Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus, and Pilate permitted. Therefore he came and took his body. And Nicodemus came also, the one who came to him first by night,Continue reading “Coming Out”

John 13:1-17And before the celebration of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to return from this world to the father. Having loved his own, the ones who are in the world into the end he loved them and having become dinner, the devil now had thrown into the heart of Judas SimonContinue reading “Unfamiliar Intimacy”

Matthew 21:1-9And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Beth’phage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If any one saysContinue reading “What do you need?”

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him. WeContinue reading “Manifest Work”

I have been reading a book by C. Peter Wagner called Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow. It is an interesting book. The chapter I am on now is about 4 things Spiritual Gifts are not. They are not Natural Talents, Fruit of the Spirit, Christian Roles, and Conterfeit Gifts. So my talentContinue reading “Roles, Gifts, Fruit…”

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they mayContinue reading “Get Your Broom”

Matthew 17:1 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain apart. 17:2 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light. 17:3 And behold, there appeared to them Moses andContinue reading “Listen!”

Matthew 4:12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; 4:13 and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caper’na-um by the sea, in the territory of Zeb’ulun and Naph’tali, 4:14 that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 4:15 “The land of Zeb’ulun and the landContinue reading “Drag Net”