"This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouths, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." --Matthew 15:8-9 Last Christmas my wife and I took a vacation in Prescott, Arizona. On the afternoon of Christmas [...]
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us." --Hebrews 12:1 When I was a child, I had a toy dump truck that I would play with for hours. [...]
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) When I was a kid in the early 1980's, my parents and I could only do two things with the telephone in our house: make calls and get calls. The phone had [...]
"For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweight them and will last forever!" 2 Corinthians 4-17 I was searching for a new apartment closer to work, but none of them suited me. I went to see several, and they all promised to [...]
"And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in [...]
"The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy." --James 3:17 (ESV) Have you ever faced an all-important decision, with no idea where to turn? Perhaps you talked to God about it, but you didn't seem to get [...]