“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen” (2 Pet 3:18). Growth! Silent. Tenacious. Miraculous. See a seedling push it’s way through a crack in concrete or a sapling root itself in a cliffside. Awaken today to the possibilities […]
“Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world’” (Mt 25:34). Love loves to share everything with those it loves. How can we grasp the fact that our Jesus didn’t want the Kingdom without us? […]
“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it” (1 Thess 5:23-24). There it is, what we might call the punchline promise. When all […]
“The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; you who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’” (Obad 1:3). Pride is self-deception, putting us in place of God, and self-destructive, putting us on a path opposing His […]
“But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, ‘Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?’” (Mk 4:38). In the terror of the moment, in Matthew’s account some call Him “Lord” (kurios); in Mark, “Teacher” (didaskalos); in Luke, “Master” (epistates). In a storm today? […]
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). You become what you repeatedly do; holiness is a habit, not simply random, unrelated acts. That’s why we are called to a walk: simple, repeated actions, all moving in the same direction. […]
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God” (Job 19:25-26). Only the monotheistic beliefs offer hope of being with God in the afterlife. But Islam denies the Redeemer’s death; Judaism, […]
“To whom He said, ‘This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,’ and, ‘This is the refreshing’; yet they would not hear” (Isa 28:12). What could be better in your life right now, and the lives of those you love, than these two blessings—rest and refreshing? All Israel had to […]
“…try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it” (Mal 3:10). The path for blessing from God is giving to God. But what happens? He then […]