July 13, 2019
Defined by God’s Grace
Are you defined by God’s grace? Your deeds don’t save you. Your deeds don’t keep you saved. Grace does. Paul said, “By the grace of God I am what I am.”
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July 11, 2019
God’s Unfailing Love
Believing and accepting that you are loved by the Father will in turn affect your feelings for Him. Commit to knowing Him more intimately and accurately through His Word, and your affection for Him will begin to grow.
Read more..July 9, 2019
Unrequited Love
“He knows exactly what we are and loves us anyway.” Despite our lack of love for God, he, demonstrated unrequited love for us by sending Jesus as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Read more..July 8, 2019
Grace Moments
Take a moment to journal about the times that God has extended grace to you throughout your life. It often helps in the moments we need to extend grace to others to recall what he has done for you.
Read more..June 24, 2019
Living Loved
The secret to loving is living loved. It’s the forgotten first step in relationships. Remember Paul’s prayer? “May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love” (Ephesians 3:17
Read more..June 18, 2019
Power, Love and Self Discipline
How quickly we can get that run down feeling when continually being faced by those we tend not to like.
Read more..June 12, 2019
Corrective Lenses
“God already sees you as perfect in him.” Based on my own ongoing and painfully slow transformation, I jokingly asked my friend if she ever wondered if God might need glasses.
Read more..June 9, 2019
The Lord is Near
Because the Lord is near, we can rejoice and treat others with gentleness. He is near because he lives in us through his Spirit.
Read more..May 31, 2019
A Squawking World
“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen,” and the squawking magpies remind me to not only see the souls’ longings, but also hear them. I am called to be an imitator of God as I listen: “Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24).
Read more..May 31, 2019
7 Good Things…to Know about God’s Love for You
No one knows you more thoroughly: O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up: (vs. 1) No one understands you more completely: You understand my thought afar off. (vs.2) No one cares about you more deeply: You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are
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