"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." (Ps 139:14 NIV)Our golden retriever, Salida, has many positive attributes. When you come home after a long day at work, she is always waiting for you at the...
"Hold on to the good." (1 Thess 5:15 NIV)"Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us." (1 Peter 2:12 NIV)"You have tasted that the Lord is good." (1 Peter 2:3...
1 Corinthians 12:4-5 - There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. (NIV)God has blessed each of us with unique gifts. Some of us have great gifts, such as in teaching, healing sickness, or in giving...
Ecclesiastes 11:5 – As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. (NIV)Luke 15:10 – In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the...
John 12:26 – If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. (ESV)My mother and I always joke about our cat, Simba, having servants. He seems to think that he is entitled to having...
Though skeptical of his teenage son's new found determination to build bulging muscles, one father followed his teenager to the store's weight-lifting department, where they admired a set of weights.“Please, Dad,” pleaded the teen, “I promise I'll use them every...
"By God's grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News." Ephesians 3:7 NLTAt the time, I didn't see it as such, but later I realized it was. I wasn't born a PK (preacher's kid) but became one shortly thereafter. By...