This week, we tackle Revelation 2:8-11. Today, we shine a particular spotlight on the “synagogue of Satan” in an attempt to understand Jesus’ references to it twice in Revelation. First, to the church in Smyrna,...

Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must...

Standing on God’s promises is the result of building our life on a firm foundation.  Matthew 7:24-25 reads, “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise...

When I was a child, I thought as a child… but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1 Corinthians 13:11). Similarly, when I was a childlike Christian, I foolishly asked God...

This week, we are encouraged to do some personal excavation with Matthew 7:3-5 as our prompt: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the...

Man is a spirit, and no spirit walks in isolation.  Once we enter into a covenant with Christ, by design we enter into a covenant with each other. We become one body of Christ and...

While he was with them, he declared, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me. For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized...

by Jeanne Melberg “With all sorts of doubts I am familiar, and the result of them is, has been, and will be, a widening of my heart and soul and mind to greater glories of...

by Jeanne Melberg We know the story; from the Garden, the Fall — resulting from Adam and Eve’s experiment with sin; by severing themselves from the “Vine”. There is no life apart from the Vine....