Rivers (even those known to be mighty) begin with more of a burble than a bang. What begins with spurts and drizzles at its source, however, becomes a torrent downstream. Take the mighty Columbia, for example. It starts as a …
Jesus compared Himself to bread at the Last Supper—“Take, eat; this is my body”[1]—but that wasn’t the first time He’d done so. When He fed the five thousand in John 6 He made a similar statement. “I am the living …
“How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?” (John 6:52 NKJV). Jesus had stirred up quite a flap. “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood,” He’d said, “you have no life …
Jesus wasn’t just talking about money when he said, “give and it will be given to you” in Luke 6:38. Most of us know that, of course, but Oswald Chambers, in his Morning and Evening devotional, brought me up short …
