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So this year – I’m not holding back, I refuse to play it safe. I’m making a list and trusting in God’s power to enable me to keep them. And if I fail -…
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So this year – I’m not holding back, I refuse to play it safe. I’m making a list and trusting in God’s power to enable me to keep them. And if I fail -…
What are we doing for the sake of the gospel? Are you praying? Are you going? Are you giving?
The names given to Jesus tell a great deal about His ministry on earth 2,000 years ago. The scriptural names describing Him reveal who He was and is and will be for eternity.
Shivering and in pain, she struggled over the frozen countryside. But the night was so cold. Snow began to fall. Realizing that the time was near to deliver her baby, she took shelter under…
Angels: we marvel at their words and authority, and we tremble at their greatness and awesomeness, but...
Could I honestly say, “Just give me Jesus”? What about my Christian community? Family? Books? Familiar worship? My culture? Career?
One evening as a boy studied the photo of his father he said, “I wish daddy would just step out of the picture and be here with me now.”
This is Christmas. This is Emmanuel: God with us. This is the advent - the coming of the Lord. God invading history. The one who invented it coming into it and submitting himself to…
How interesting that God chose shepherds as recipients of the “birth announcement” of the Savior. Shepherds weren’t men who worshipped in sanctuaries with stained glass windows.
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.
God wants us to treat each other as he has treated us, thinking of their needs and God's will before our own. Now that's one revolution I hope I get to see fully happen!
The shepherds were afraid when the angels appeared to them. Luke 2:8. Have you ever noticed God is always telling us to not be afraid? The Bible teaches...
Like Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds, we are so prone to fear. We’re afraid because we feel alone and forsaken, when we encounter the unknown, and when we face something bigger than us. Why…
God is with us now, not just in thought or in theory or in wishful thinking. But in actual fact.
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…
Everything changes when we see the face of God. He came with tears, too.
If prayer is truly a conversation, then we should listen for His response instead of doing all the talking.
Psalm 37:3 “Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.”
Your divine reversal is coming. Assume that God is at work. Move forward as if God is moving forward in your life.