The Secret Wireless

Hebrews 3 12 "Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,  'Today, if you hear his voice,  do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.'  16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief."             Despite what some Christians believe, it is possible for Christians to fall away...

  Jesus teaches us to pray, finally, “Our Father…deliver us from evil.”                    What is the evil from which we are to pray to be delivered?   We have already prayed for deliverance from evils that plague and attack the body.   This happens when we pray for daily bread.   So that is included here.   We pray that God would take away all sickness, poverty, and hardship that harms our human flesh.                  Theft, war, bad leaders, angry neighbors, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, heat, and more.   There are so many bodily dangers in this world that it is impossible to name them all.   That is why Jesus summarizes them under the heading of daily bread.   These are evils from which we need to be delivered.        ...

  Jesus teaches us to pray: "Our Father who art in heaven..."                                 Is God really your Father?   Because we talk and think about Him as if He is all the time.   In fact many non-Christians seem to assume that God is a fatherly figure, even if they do not really go to church or trust Him for salvation.                 I want to make the assertion tonight that God is not your father, at least not in the way you usually think about it.      First, think about the Biblical evidence.   You will search, nearly in vain, for references to God as Father in the Old Testament.   They are there, but they are rather few and far between.   Usually it is God who asserts that He has act...

  Epiphany is your reason to celebrate the life of Jesus.   Without it there is still good reason for any descendents of Abraham to rejoice, but for anyone else, no dice.                 Christmas is really for the Jews, not for Gentiles, as most of us are.   We see this repeatedly in the Gospel readings following Christmas.   There are the Jewish shepherds on Christmas night, the people of Bethlehem, Simeon and Anna in the Temple.   What do all these have in common?   They all have the same ancestors, the same pedigree.   They were on the inside track for salvation.   They were Jews.                 But tonight is different.   It is startlingly different.   Epiphany is not for the Jews.   It is for gentiles, and not just any gentiles, but the worst kind that you can t...