"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know...
When Lives are At Stake"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13 NIV)Point Pelee's Lifesaving station in Ontario, Canada was established in 1901 as a result of the numerous lives and vessels lost to this peninsula....
"Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?" (Jeremiah 23:29 ESV)"He makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire." (Psalm 104:4 ESV)Here lately I have noticed that I am missing my fire. Oh, I have my...
No matter how often we’re told otherwise, it’s easy to slip back into the thinking that God only loves us if we do a really, really good job of loving him back.All the time.‘If we’re really bad,’ we think, ‘he won’t forgive us.’ ‘If we miss the mark, have an off...
"In Him we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28a ESV)Recently, I saw a photograph in which a koala bear clung for dear life to a branch high above the ground. His eyes were squinted tightly shut as if to block out an approaching disaster. The caption read,...
Have you ever looked back at something from childhood and wondered, what in tarnation was I thinking?As children, we had a blast trying to catch enough fireflies to make a night light for our bedrooms using a canning jar. Sometimes though, we used to hold the bug...
"We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt like grasshoppers next to them, and that's what we looked like to them." Numbers 13:33 NLTQuan was struggling with a foreboding sense of insignificance. His people were celebrating a feast for their gods....