I believe that sometimes we forget that God really is at work among us, that He really does work in small ways and huge ones. We can get so caught up in the very real struggles of life that we forget we serve a powerful, caring, personal God. But sometimes we are reminded.
I have had [...]
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God is at work…really!
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Two Traps
Proverbs 29 reveals two traps that sometimes affect me:
To flatter friends is to lay a trap for their feet – Proverbs 29:5
I’d better have kind words for people. But if those kind words are not true words, they may allow the person to believe a lie. If you’ve seen American Idol you’ve seen the results [...]
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Love Others
The Bible in four words: love God, love others. Jesus agreed that the entire law of Moses could be summed up in these two phrases. My previous post looks at how Jesus said we could show our love for God, but what does it mean to love others? Who are we supposed to love and [...]
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Love God
The Bible in four words: love God, love others. Jesus agreed that the entire law of Moses could be summed up in these two phrases. But what does it mean to love God? How do we express our love for Him? Well, Jesus’ answer to this question is recorded quite clearly in John 14 [...]
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Bible in Four Words
The Bible can be complicated sometimes. There are so many books, chapters, verses, characters, instructions, and places! How can we keep it all straight? Does God really expect us to remember all that? Thankfully, Luke records a conversation that Jesus had with an ‘expert’ in religious law. Jesus asked the man what the law of [...]
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MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE
As a kid, my parents would sometimes give me tasks to do that seemed impossible. Not only did I not want to do them, they truly seemed like tasks that I was not able to do. Maybe it was painting the entire barn, or filling the entire wood shed with split wood. Maybe it [...]
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