THE GRAMMAR OF GRACE
“We love him, because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 A little grammar lesson has taught me one huge lesson about God! And I want to share the lesson with you because it has made such a difference in my…
FOR THOSE WHO WONDER “WHY?”
"Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.’” Genesis 1:26 “Why, Mommy? Why? But why?” That’s what I heard an adorable little toddler at Starbucks keep on asking her mother. The little girl was…
I’M ALL EARS!
The LORD God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. …
WHAT CAN ONE PERSON DO?
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34 It was a rainy Thursday, May 3, 1787, when thirty-six-year-old James Madison stepped down from his stagecoach, the…
OF TIME AND ETERNITY
God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to…
PAUSING AT THE THRESHOLD
And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.1 Corinthians 13:13 How do you like to spend these days at the threshold of the New Year? Do you like to just kick back and…
THIS I KNOW – GOD IS NEAR THE BROKEN-HEARTED
The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.Psalm 34:18 At the end of his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway concludes: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” He…
THIS I KNOW – THE BEST IS YET TO BE
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with…
THIS I KNOW – SUFFERING PREPARES ME FOR SOMETHING ETERNAL
So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,…
THIS I KNOW – LIFE IS ABOUT JESUS, NOT ME
If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law,…