Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Futility of Labor Without God And Rest
Unless the Lord builds the house, the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. It is senseless to work hard from early morning until late at night, fearing you will starve to death, for God also wants...
Foolishness
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will confound the understanding of those who have understanding." Has God not...
The Advice Of A Fool
You’ll get more from the rebuke of a sage than from the song and dance of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:5 MSG A fool is someone who gives advice unencumbered by the thought process. h/t Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers
A New Creation
The Apostle Paul knew a thing or two about new creations. Even though he had been a leading persecutor of Christians, Paul was made new by an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. God had a different plan for Saul, made new as Paul. Here, in his second epistle...
A Prayer Of Intercession
"O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know You, but I do; and these disciples know You sent Me. I have revealed You to them, and I will continue to do so. Then Your love for Me will be in them, and I will be in them.” John 17:25-26 NLT It's very near to the time of...
Revealed Truth
“Truly, truly, I say to you, those who hear My message and believe in God who sent Me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but have already passed from death into life." John 5:24, Adapted
Above My Pay Grade
Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant. Nor do I involve myself in great matters, or in things too difficult for me. I have certainly soothed and quieted my soul. My soul within me is like a weaned child resting against his mother. I wait for the Lord, from...
If God Is In Charge, Guess Who Is Not?
Come now you who say, "today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then...
A Ready Help
God is our refuge and strength, a very ready help in times of trouble. Even though the earth shakes and the mountains slip into the heart of the sea, we will not fear. Though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride we will not fear....
The Source And Giver Of Peace
Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful. John 14:27 NASB And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians...
Strength In The Light
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1
From Everlasting To Everlasting
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. Psalm 90, a prayer of Moses, the man of God, adapted.
The Sword Of God
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was...
Spiritual Resurrection
But then something happened. God our Savior and His hesed love* for mankind entered our world. He saved us, not on the basis of our righteous deeds, but in accordance with His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He richly poured...
Obedient
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And immediately coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon Him; and a voice came from the heavens: “You are My beloved...
Truth And Love
But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:15 NASB Truth makes love possible. Love makes truth bearable. Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.
A Trustworthy Word
He who abides in the shelter of the Most High will be safe in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalms 91:1, Adapted Here is a description of the certain assurance in which one lives who puts his whole trust in God and commits himself wholly to His protection in all...
Time To Sacrifice The Queen?
Whenever life becomes a game of tinker toys the queen may be sacrificed. Adapted, Maybe, Maybe Not, Robert Fulghum On a hot summer’s day, late in August, I sought shade and a cool drink under the canvas awning of a waterfront café in the old harbor of the town of...
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