“Listen to my words, Lord, consider my lament. Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.” (Psalm 5:1-2 NIV)I love this verse. It shows me that David spent time talking with his Heavenly Father. And if David, a man loved by God’s own heart...
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...
On Monday, in Lessons From the Classroom, Part 18, I told the story how God guided me to the position of interim French Consultant for my school board, and as September of that school year approached, I became excited for my new job.You see, I had been contemplating...
These are perhaps the most recognized verses in the Bible when Christians cry out to God for healing. One is found in the Old Testament and one in the New. Though spanning a vast timeline of events, they both refer to Jesus' death on the cross for the forgiveness of...
It was one of those days. Besides being in the midst of the COVID pandemic, everything I touched seemed to go bad. I was tired, and I was more than a little bit grumpy. The kicker, however, was when I got to the checkout counter at the local grocery store, mask and...
We aren’t told much about Enoch in the Bible. In fact, the sum of our knowledge comes from a few verses. First of all, we know his parentage: “When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch…When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah…”...
Ephesians 4:18,22-24 - They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which...
