These past couple of weeks I had a trip planned that involved 9 airports, 8 flights, 1 train, 1 van, and 2 long car rides, all during a global conflict. The countries where I was traveling also required extra special care following the laws. Thankfully I made it around the world without a problem.  This brought peace but it was not the source of my Shalom.   My peace during this trip was the absence of difficulty. But even though in English we translate Shalom as peace the word has greater...

In Luke 4 we read that Jesus stood up in the temple and quoted Isaiah 61:1,2a, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Christ was declaring that His coming was the fulfillment of this prophecy concerning the year of Jubilee which was to be a time of forgiveness and healing....

There is an interesting verse in the Old Testament that occurs just after the account of the deliverance of Daniel from the Lions Den. King Darius was so amazed by what happened had occurred that he recognized the power of the God of Daniel. We read in Daniel 6:26 his words, “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.” ...