Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
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...
A Prayer Of Surrender, Humility, And Worship
But how can I ever know what sins are lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults. And keep me from deliberate wrongs; help me to stop doing them. Only then can I be free of guilt and innocent of some great crime. May the words of my mouth and the...
Abide
Abide in Me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do...
Revealed Truth
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, rebuke, correction, instruction, and for training in righteousness and conformity to God’s will for our lives. It is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It is...
The Word Of God
And He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, that He might make you realize that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Listen, then, O Israel. Commit yourselves...
At The Launch Of A New Year
Maker and Sustainer of all things, I launch my bark on the unknown waters of a new year, with You as my Harbor, Your Son at my helm, and the Holy Spirit the wind in my sails. Length of days does not profit me except that they be passed in Your presence, in Your...
Judgment: Truth Or Evil
When all is said and done, the conclusion of the matter is this; fear God and obey His commandments, for this is the entire duty of man. For God will bring every act to judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it be for truth or evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
Sin. Justice. The Worm Does Not Die.
I, the Lord, have spoken. “As surely as My new heavens and earth will remain, so will you always be My people, with a name that will never disappear,” says the Lord. “All humanity will come to worship Me from week to week and from month to month. And as they go out,...
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