Category: Metropolitan Gleanings

Insights and meditations for the thoughtful Christian life.

The Word for Today Is #Fault

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Friendships are fragile, because people have flaws. One of the biggest mistakes people make when they have a problem with a friend or relative, is that they go and discuss it with other people. Unfortunately, the other people you talk…

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The Word for Today Is #Condemnation

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In any situation, condemnation means “no escape”: It is the rap you’ll never beat without a pardon. For Christians, the pardon comes with faith in Jesus, Who is the only One to escape death, never to die again. Because He…

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The Word for Today Is #Intercede

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When I practiced medicine, I had a saying: “The only good lawyer is My lawyer.” In the court of Heaven, Jesus is the only Lawyer Who can get you off that sentence of eternal damnation. He intercedes for all those…

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Jesus Is Your Best Friend

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Jesus gave His life for His friends (us).

  Just as there are weeds that masquerade as flowers, there are enemies that position themselves as your friends. Real friends love you. They will lay down their lives for you. One way they lay down their lives for you…

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“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit.” Luke 10:21

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“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit.” Luke 10:21 The Saviour was “a man of sorrows,” but every thoughtful mind has discovered the fact that down deep in His innermost soul He carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly…

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Blessings, Gentle as the Rain

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God's love is gentle like the rain.

  Deuteronomy 11:14 then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. The love of God is gentle and wooing,…

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What’s in a Name?

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Every believer will obtain a new name written on a white stone.

Everything has a name. Naming has many dimensions. To have a name verifies existence, for things both seen and unseen. For example, the Greek philosopher Democritus named the atom about 2,500 years ago – long before their existence was proven. The name…

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