Author: STEVE BALL

Merry Christmas to all! Jesus is surely the Savior whom God sent into the world in the fullness of time. We come now to the birth of our Savior, Jesus.  We go back to Luke 2:1-21 for this part of the story: 1In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should…

Habakkuk 1-3 1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. Habakkuk’s Complaint 2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,    and you will not hear?Or cry to you “Violence!”    and you will not save?3 Why do you make me see iniquity,    and why do you idly look at wrong?Destruction and violence are before me;    strife and contention arise.4 So the law is paralyzed,    and justice never…

We continue our look at a chronology of biblical accounts around Jesus’ birth. Some 700 years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote prophecies of the birth of the Savior.  Isaiah 9:1-7 tells this part of the story: 1But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought…