God's Glory Church

While Maria and Joseph were finalizing the guest list and choosing the wedding cake, she surprised him with unexpected news – she, a virgin, was pregnant. Assuming she was unfaithful, as any logical person would, Joseph was ready to call off the engagement. But while he was still considering his exit strategy, an angel of (…)

Have you ever had your hopes up for someone and they let you down? We live in a broken world and even the best people fail and hurt. But Isaiah knew that someone would come who would be different. He will be reliable, consistent and just what we need. In Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah points to (…)

“The Lord, your God, will raise up for you a prophet from among you, from among your brothers, one like me – you will listen to him.” — Deuteronomy 18:15 “I must declare an emergency. My pilot has died.” Doug White nervously spoke these words to the controller watching his flight. A few minutes after (…)

“…and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” — Matthew 1:21 What began as a normal cable car ride across a Pakistani valley turned into a frightful ordeal. Shortly after the ride began, two supporting cables snapped, leaving eight passengers—including school children—suspended hundreds of feet in the (…)

The prophet Isaiah wrote the words of Isaiah 7:14 almost 600 years before the birth of Jesus. At the time these words were written, the Israelites were performing all the right religious practices, but they were not doing justice as God commanded. Like many prophets of Isaiah’s day, it was a warning against such injustice. (…)

“Therefore comfort one another and build one another up, just as you do.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:11 A school teacher in Indiana asked students to write notes of encouragement and inspiration to their peers. A few days later, when a school tragedy occurred in another part of the country, their notes lifted the spirits of (…)

“The time will come,” says the Lord, “when I will fulfill all the good words that I have commanded the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” Jeremiah 33:14 Many people would have laughed at Jeremiah when he said these words. Why? Because God seemed to have abandoned Israel and Judah. At this point (…)

“And you will call to Me, and go, and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” — Jeremiah 29:12 When Pastor Timofey wears a priest’s white collar during his travels, he is often stopped by strangers. “Pray for me, please,” people say at the airport when they see the white ribbon on his (…)

Have you ever encountered a situation where two people should have been in agreement, but they weren’t? Maybe it was your parents, or your boss and your boss’s boss, or two friends. You had a certain question, and you got a completely different answer from one person than from another. How confusing is that? This (…)

Imagine: your brother has been dead for four days. Grief is so all-consuming that every part of you feels numb. Your tears have dried, but the pain is far from gone. Then Jesus appears – your friend, who is considered the Messiah, who was prophesied, the Savior of the world, who performed amazing miracles. Only… (…)