And it all started in Bethlehem. The birth was a miracle. The death was payment necessary for salvation. The resurrection was another miracle opening the pathway to heaven for the rest of us human beings.
Read more..Release your hold on your life and throw the door open on the dynamic of God's will for your future.
Read more..Regret is like a hot potato. Hold onto it for any period of time and it will burn you.
Read more..The spiritual principle of growth - We obey by stepping into our weakness or our fear, trusting in the fact that because it is something He asks of us, He will meet us somewhere along the way with the power to do it.
Read more..Thought for the day: Don't ever sell short what God can do "because of you."
Read more..Is there anybody you'd rather not see in heaven? What if God chooses to extend mercy to that person? Would you go away and pout like Jonah?
Read more..Jonah was so caught up in his own self-righteousness that, in the end, all he could care about was himself and a stupid plant. Meanwhile, God was having compassion for a hundred and twenty thousand people who were trapped in their own ignorance, along with many animals, which God cared about, too.
Read more..In Christ we have been set free from the power and the penalty of sin, free from trying to earn God's favor, free from the insatiable need to please ourselves, and free to know the truth.
Read more..The more honest we are with our humanity, the more the power of God can be seen and recognized in us. our fragile, clay-like (from the earth) bodies and the immeasurable brightness of Christ is something that should be obvious so that everyone will know the power must be coming from God, because it certainly isn't coming from us.
Read more..Thinking like a servant doesn't automatically make you one, but it goes a long way toward getting you there. If you are thinking like a servant, you are noticing others; and the more you are aware of others, the more the Holy Spirit can use you in reaching out to them
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