Category: Vox Domini

Vox | “Sense the Time, Settle Up”

In this passage from Luke 12:54-59, Jesus basically scolds his hearers for being so dull. Now, Jesus is never needlessly harsh. But sometimes we are so thick that we need to have a friend slap some sense into us!

Jesus is that Friend—a far better friend than anyone we could have in this world. “No one has a greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” He did just that! He loved His friends so much that he surrendered his life!

But if you would take Jesus’ friendship, you’ve also got to take His rough words, His humbling you, and His exposing your folly. Let’s wake up! Let’s silence our phone, let’s unplug—and plug into the Wisdom of God, Jesus Christ. Let’s learn to discern the times from the perspective of Heaven. Let’s make peace with our fellow man and bury the hatchet, while “it is still called today.” And let’s follow Jesus safe and sound through an evil, perverse age into heavenly glory.

Join us for our afternoon service at 4:00 p.m. this Lord’s day (Sunday) when we will treat this passage at the Presbyterian Reformed Church, located at 1870 Route 50, in Tuckahoe. And please feel free to stay after for a shared supper around 5:30 p.m. We would love to have you there!

Vox | “Be Afraid, yet Don’t Fear”

In this passage from Luke 12:1-12, the Lord Jesus Christ deals with the subject of fear. The godless have every reason to wake up and be afraid—very afraid!—since they are living on heavily borrowed time. But even true followers of Jesus should beware of letting fear take over, because that very fear can turn God into their enemy. And yet, God’s children have no reason to be afraid of anything in this world, if they only trust Jesus and reject all fear of man.

Are you afraid? Of what—and why? Or are you content, without a care in the world when you should really be alarmed?

Join us for our afternoon service at 4:00 p.m. this Lord’s day (Sunday) when we will treat this passage at the Presbyterian Reformed Church, located at 1870 Route 50, in Tuckahoe. And please feel free to stay after for a shared supper around 5:30 p.m. We would love to have you there!

Vox | “Clean Outside, but Filthy Within!”

In this short passage from Luke 11:37-44, our Lord Jesus Christ condemns the religious “elite” of his day, the Pharisees, who were hypocrites through and through. He doesn’t pull punches on these notorious hypocrites. Do His words strike you? Do they resonate and penetrate? If so, perhaps the Holy Spirit is striving with your soul.