THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER God always speaks to us in a language we can understand. Years back Santy and I knew an older lady in Malang who remained active even in her nineties. I remember, when she was well into her eighties, she still travelled by means of public transportation. In the end her eye-si...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Santy and I would like to thank you all, not only for making it possible for us to go to Malang, but also for praying for us. Thank you for your continued support; we truly appreciate it. Because of your support, Santy was able to connect with her women’s group and had [&he...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Studying the Word and Our Prayers Daniel studied the words of Jeremiah – he studied the Bible! And through His time in God’s word (the book of Jeremiah) he was able to understand a prophecy that Jerusalem/Israel would be in captivity for 70 years and they were living in t...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER What would you be accused of? Remember in Daniel 6 when Daniel was thrown in the lion’s den? It was all because he prayed and he would do it so consistently, Daniel’s enemies in leadership knew they could trap him with it. People in leadership didn’t like Daniel and wer...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Live faithfully It was a death sentence. The king had a dream and he wanted his wise men to interpret it without telling them what the dream was. If they didn’t, they would all be killed. His wise men said what everyone was thinking – there isn’t anyone who could do tha...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER Live differently These weeks I thought we could look at one of my favorite Old Testament prophets – Daniel. Daniel was a part of Israel when Babylon came, took most of the people captive, took them away from Jerusalem. Even though there had been warnings & prophecy abou...

  The other day I saw an interview with Tim Tebow. You who follow football should know who Tim Tebow is. He’s a former professional football player and who has now become a professional baseball player. But, he’s more than that. Besides writing books and playing baseball, what he is doing n...

In his book about Paul, Pastor Chuck Swindoll calls Ananias of the Bible as one of the forgotten heroes of the faith. As you might recall, God asked Ananias to go and meet Saul—who later became Paul—to pray for him so he could see again. It literally shocked him because as far as he was [&hellip...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER We’ll never what God has in store for us....

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER During the first Christmas Santy and I served at FIBC, I stumbled upon Zechariah 6:15 in my daily devotion, “Those who are far away will come and help to build the temple of the Lord, and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you....