By: Obed Pineda Holy Writ declares through the quill of the apostle to the Gentiles, “What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding” (1st Corinthians…
By: Obed Pineda When a person stops to observe the world surrounding him, if that person is upright and humble, he will marvel such as David did and wonder, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him” (Psalm 8:4)? There…
By: Obed Pineda “Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.” (Micah 7:18, emphasis added). When the prophet Micah was Divinely inspired to write these words, Judah…
By: Joel Ramirez As a child, one of my favorite things to do on a weekday was to sit with my mother and watch The Price is Right. How we longed to hear those words “Come on down” signaling another contestant would have a chance at winning a whole slew…
By: Obed Pineda “For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.” (1st John 3:20) Its Sunday morning and you are already in your seat as worship promptly begins. You are curiously intrigued by the title of that morning’s lesson and ponder as…
By: Obed Pineda As the road toward Golgotha began to wind down, the Master was keenly aware that His time with His disciples was soon to expire. When their path led them to Jerusalem “six days before the Passover,” as the beloved disciple tells it, the Lord imparted a series…
By: Obed Pineda “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5:6) When a traveler is crossing the scorching, arid sands of the desert, the sudden appearance of a verdant tract of land notifies him of the presence of a perennial source of…
By: Obed Pineda Of the plethora of lessons I received from my beloved mentor, there is one that I fondly remember. He and I were in attendance at the funeral of a faithful sister in Christ and had just arrived at the gravesite where her remains were going to be…
By: Obed Pineda During operation “Desert Storm,” the US government approved to send several fleets of fighter jets overseas to an undisclosed location in the Middle East. However, as the fleets began to land at their designated station a problem presented itself for the operation. The location that had been…
By: Obed Pineda When presenting a business proposal to a party of interest, the ultimate goal of that meeting is to get that party to “sign on the dotted line.” This becomes the priority of that meeting, because without their signature, no matter how much interest that party may show…