The Dungeon of Bitterness
Bitterness is its own prison. you can choose, like some to put away your hurts before they become hates.
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Give God Your Guilt
Is guilt having its way with you? Isaiah 1:18: “No matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can take it out and make you as clean as freshly fallen snow.”
A Love That Never Fails
By Max Lucado - A Love That Never Fails. A love that never fails! Hard to imagine, isn’t it? Has human love ever failed you?
Nothing Can Separate Us
Nothing Can Separate Us - by Max Lucado. “Nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that…
God Runs Toward You
God runs when he sees the son coming home from the pig trough. When the addict steps out of the alley. When the teen walks away from the party.
Weighed Down with Anxieties
Anxiety is not a sin; it is an emotion. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior.
True Courage
The point is clear. The Father of Truth will win, and the followers of Truth will be saved. The prize is yours. Applaud the victory!
A Real Friend
You don’t abandon a friend -not even when that friend is dead. John stayed close to Jesus.
The God Who Feeds My Soul
“I am the bread that gives life.” John 6:35 Can you see why Jesus called himself the Bread of Life?
The Right Vision
God has the right vision — he has seen the homeland. He has the right directions — he has cut the path.
Just Call Him Jesus
God's Plan for humanity....it was crafted in the halls of heaven and carried out on the plains of earth. Only holiness could have imagined it.
Jesus Knows Just How You Feel
Listen to Hebrews 4:15, “. . .he Himself has shared fully in all our experience of temptation, except that He never sinned.”
An Undeserved Gift
Ironic as it may appear, one of the hardest things to do is to be saved by grace. We take our free gift of salvation and try to earn it or diagnose it or…
Look Into God’s Face
Everything changes when we see the face of God. He came with tears, too.
Your Divine Reversal
Your divine reversal is coming. Assume that God is at work. Move forward as if God is moving forward in your life.
Risk Believing in God
Take a risk. Believe in God. He will do what he has said he will do.
He Knows Your Needs
Seek first the kingdom of wealth, and you’ll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health, and...But seek first his kingdom, and...
Trouble Comes with Life
No one gets a free pass, but we can believe this: one way or another, God's relief and deliverance will come.
Into His Likeness
If I have the mind of Jesus, why do I still think so much like me? Why do I still have the hang-ups of Max? Why do I still hate traffic jams?
Our Sure God
Our moods may shift, but God’s doesn’t. Our minds may change, but God’s doesn’t.