PASTOR STEVE'S BLOG

Luke 19:10 As Jesus passed through Jericho, there was a rich tax-collector named Zaccheus who was trying to see Jesus. The crowd blocked his view, because he was not very tall. But his faith enabled him to rise above the difficulty; Zaccheus ran and climbed up a tree in order to see Jesus.  Jesus made eye contact with him and said, “Zaccheus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”  So he received the Lord with joy. When he stood before Jesus, Zaccheus began to confess his wrongdoing and repent from it.  He even offered restitution to anyone whom he had wronged.  “I’ll give back, I’ll restore, even what I am falsely accused of." Jesus declared of this man, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.”   When we find Jesus, we must not allow the crowd to distract our attention from Him. If, like Zaccheus, we confess our sins and repent, we too become true sons and daughters of Abrah...

Luke 5:4-11 A multitude pressed in and around Jesus to hear the word of God. There were two boats close by, so He got into one of the boats and continued to teach the people. When he finished speaking, He addressed Simon Peter, the fisherman, who probably owned one of the boats. Jesus said, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." The Lord wants to bring in a "catch," a harvest greater than we can imagine!  There will be times when He will tell us also to "launch out into the deep," to trust Him at His word, to do things that may seem to be a bit risky. Simon answered with natural thinking, “We have worked hard all night, laboring out of necessity. We are expert fishermen, yet we caught nothing last night. But You are a great Bible Teacher and out of respect for You, we will let down the nets, even though You probably don't know how to fish.”  When they had done what Jesus said, they caught a quantity of fish so lar...

2 Kings 4:38-41: "And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, 'Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.' So one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they were. Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, 'Man of God, there is death in the pot!' And they could not eat it. So he said, 'Then bring some flour.' And he put it into the pot, and said, 'Serve it to the people, that they may eat.' And there was nothing harmful in the pot." Have you ever been spiritually famished? Someone offers you a meal with a wild gourd, maybe a wild doctrine or a strange teaching which you haven't heard or seen a...