How are you feeling today? Looking for something? Feel like there’s something missing in your life? One of Augustine’s most famous quotes is from the first book of his Confessions. There he wrote: “You move us to delight in praising you; for you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they … Continue reading FULFILLED: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
Slow To Speak in Our Rapid Fire World
“Know this, my beloved brethren: let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God” (Js. 1:19-20). Maybe you enjoy watching people yell at and over each other on Fox News and MSNBC. I don’t enjoy the yelling matches. It seems … Continue reading Slow To Speak in Our Rapid Fire World
God’s Final Message
God is not silent. Being a loving God who wants us to share in his glory, he has revealed his will, his love, his holiness, and his way of salvation so that we can be with him forever. God’s message was first revealed in small ways to fathers and prophets--Heb. 1:1. But now, God’s final … Continue reading God’s Final Message
God Is In Control
We love to remember how God is in control. When we are scared, we try to remember that God is in control. When we face the uncertainties of Covid 19, we are thankful that God is in control. When we open our bills, we are thankful again that God is in control. When we leave … Continue reading God Is In Control
I Will Rejoice
After surviving the Holocaust, Anne Frank, in The Diary of a Young Girl, wrote, “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” Jeremiah is described as the weeping prophet because he, like Anne Frank, watched the destruction of his people and their homeland. Jeremiah and Anne Frank surely questioned … Continue reading I Will Rejoice
Hope
As it seems we are beginning to go back to normal life a bit with school opening, we are troubled with worries but filled with hope. Hope does not put to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we are … Continue reading Hope
Ready to Go Back to School??
It’s back to school time! What does that mean for us now? We don’t know but it probably involves a lot of hand sanitizer, social distancing, and anxiety. All we can do is prepare as best we can for whatever might happen. Are you prepared? Prepare for the future by trusting the One who holds … Continue reading Ready to Go Back to School??
Pray for Your Leaders
“Pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). Christians, we need to pray. We pray for everyone. We pray for those who persecute us (Matt. 5:4; Lk. 6:28). We pray for people to be restored (2 Cor. 13:9). We pray for Christians in general (Col. 1:3, 9). We pray that Christians will grow (2 Thess. 1:11). We … Continue reading Pray for Your Leaders
Please Don’t Go: Thoughts on Galatians 1:6ff
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Please Don’t Go: Thoughts on Galatians 1:6ff
“Please don’t go. Don’t go away.” As long as we are in this world, we will struggle with temptations to leave God. “When, then, the flesh resists, the soul must be intent upon God, and if results do not follow, let not faith fail. And if the enticements of the flesh come upon us, … Continue reading Please Don’t Go: Thoughts on Galatians 1:6ff
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