"Take your son, your only son…and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you." Genesis22:2 NLTLife is fickle. Just when I think I've figured it out, I experience or witness something that makes no apparent sense. Like recently....
"Give orders that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to anyone, divine or human-except to Your Majesty-will be thrown to the lions." Daniel 6:7 NLTLife should be fair but rarely is.The unfairness of life is prevalent. Thousands of human beings are snuffed out...
"Evil people try to drag me into sin, but I am firmly anchored to your instructions." Psalm 119:61 NLTAfter a few weeks of hanging around with him, I began to wonder who was influencing who. My father had just returned to the denomination of his upbringing and had...
"The temptations that come into your life are no different from what other experience. And God is faithful. He will keep the temptation from becoming so strong that you can stand up against it." 1 Corinthians 10:13 NLTHe was a mischievous boy who often succumbed to...
"Accused You gave me victory over my accusers." Psalm 18:43 NLT Accusations can sting-especially the false ones.Norris couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Didn't you know she was ____?" "Couldn't you smell ____ on her breath?" It was bad enough that he'd just had...
"Then he said, 'I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.'" Matthew 18:3 NLT They gathered around their teacher with wide-open eyes, eager to hear what she'd say.Our annual...
"And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." Ephesians 5:21 NLT "I remember when you used to…" Anytime I hear my wife say the above, I know it will be followed with something I once did but don't do anymore. Things like opening the door for her...