[That you] “may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge” (Eph 3:18-19). Every believer has a unique Christ, a Christ to answer exactly our unique needs, abilities, challenges, and burdens—thus all the saints are needed to […]
“There remains therefore a rest for the people of God…Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest” (Heb 4:9, 11). Faith is not a substitute for effort, nor is effort a substitute for faith, but both must link together, with our sincere efforts based on faith in God’s Word, providing evidence of faith in […]
“Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). Some seemingly ordinary day will dawn—but it will be THAT DAY, the day when the Father is satisfied, when the Son is magnified, when the saints are glorified—and it could be today! […]
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world” (Jas 1:27). “Gimme that (real) old-time religion”—watching out for life’s most vulnerable and easiest to overlook, while also watching out myself for the world’s tricks and the devil’s […]
…Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Php 3:13-14). Don’t walk through life backwards: leave both confessed and forgiven failures and grace-won victories at the foot of the Cross, with […]
“Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God” (Eph 2:19). Once outsiders in the worst way, we’re family now, so let’s explore our new home, alive with healing grace in Christ, life-changing promises in the Spirit, and the Father’s constant love. […]
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Prov 17:17). Do I have a friend, a brother or sister, going through a hard time today, who needs a call, a card, a visit, no matter how difficult—was I not born into God’s family for such a time as this? […]
“He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory” (1 Sam 2:8). Who would go looking for the future rulers of the universe in ash heaps and dunghills, except our God—whose own Son qualified for the […]
“Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down in his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste” (Song 2:3). Surprise! A delicious Encounter among a forest of others, so sit down near Him today, be refreshed in His […]