God With Us
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his name, Emanuel, which is translated, God with us." -- Matthew 1:23 My parents moved our family to the Brooklyn, New York area of Brownsville when I was just a kid. I was too small to realize we lived in the worst ghetto. Eventually, it became quite obvious. Growing up in that city, I went through a lot. I had to fight my way through school – literally. There was a great deal of ethnicity-based pers
BLESSED ASSURANCE: Power to Fulfill Your Divine Purpose
Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. -- John 14:1, NKJV God knows anxiety, fear, and doubt create troubled hearts. When you focus on the negative, listen too much to complaints and gossip and doomsday talk, it brings you down. When Jesus encourages the disciples with those words recorded in John, the disciples are experiencing a lot of uncertainty. Trouble is brewing in the culture. Religious leaders are falsely accusing Jesus for selfish ga
