Moses: Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! Deuteronomy 30:19 NLT Joshua: But...
We want more effective programs; God wants more effective people. @RickWarren How to be a more effective person? “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Love your neighbor as yourself....
The more we grasp all that God is, the more we face all that we are not. The Apostle Paul prays this reality: “May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to grasp, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how...
Here the Psalmist praises God for being able to give thanks to Him (v. 1). He recognizes that doing so (like worship in general) is not a right but a privilege, granted not on the basis of the psalmist’s personal merit, but of God’s lovingkindness (Note 1) and...