1 Peter 1:17 “You call on a Father who judges each person’s work without favoring one over another. So live your lives as strangers here. Have the highest respect for God.”[NIRV] Are you a stranger? In Peter’s first letter to the church, believers are referred to as aliens, the exiled, foreigners, Continue Reading…
John 14:23 “…My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” One of my fondest memories of Thanksgiving occurred while I was living, ironically, in another country when Chip and I were students at L’Abri studying under Francis Schaeffer. Nestled in the Continue Reading…
Joshua 22:22 “The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows!” Did you ever work any of those dot-to-dot pages when you were a child? You move your pencil from one dot to another and by the time you’re finished-viola!-a picture appears. Unless of course, Continue Reading…
1 Peter 4:12 ” Do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.” Life is supposed to be easy. Times get tough, and we look for the proverbial easy button to push…at least that’s what the Continue Reading…
Genesis 3:4-5 “‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman. “‘For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’” Beware of deception. No we can’t….Spend our money with reckless abandon and find financial Continue Reading…
Psalm 110:3 “Your troops will be willing on your day of battle….” Do you ever feel you have more checks in the lose column than the winning one? Although we face defeat for a number of reasons one of the less appreciated causes lies in a lack of discernment-we don’t Continue Reading…
Isaiah 26:3 “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.” It seems like an old-fashioned word. It’s a bit out of sync in our fast-lane, high-stress society. Maybe its rarity in our vocabulary reflects its scarcity in our living. Yet as elusive as peace Continue Reading…
Luke 13:24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.” Half-hearted lives. Lives created for greatness, but somewhere along the road, our budding potential gets snuffed out and we become satisfied to just get by. Continue Reading…
2 Corinthians 5:20-21 “…We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” If only I would have….or If only I wouldn’t have…. Ever wish life included a replay Continue Reading…
Romans 8:31-32 “…If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” Have you ever had any of those “I’m gonna’ eat some worms” days? Or Continue Reading…