Have you often been perplexed by some of Jesus’ sayings in the gospels? I must admit that there are many times I scratched my head over what Jesus said in response to the different questions his disciples and his opponents posed him. One of them is in Matthew 18. In verse 21, Peter asked Jesus,…

My father, after the failure of his business, was no longer a wealthy man so he could not leave any wealth or properties to his four children. Nevertheless, I am grateful that he could afford to give us the best education at university. His desire was for us to have a better life than he.…

Revelation 19:20 says the eternal destiny of all who oppose Christ is the lake of fire. They bear the mark of the beast, with the name “666” inscribed onto their foreheads or hands (Rev 13:17-18, 14:9,11). Believers too, have on their foreheads, a seal, marking them as belonging to God (Rev 9:4). As these are…

Matthew 23:27-28 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but, on the…

In so many things that we do, we feel that once we have told others something once, even twice, then they should already know. And if they should know, then they should act on that information. That seems logical, even common-sensical, doesn’t it? Yet more often than not, we find that this isn’t the case.…