Jesus revealed in His prayer that before anything was created, God, the Father, and the Son were eternally One, and that through the Son, the world was created for the purpose of eternal life in His creatures. The prayer is a gift to us who believe God’s Word. In it we learn of ...
God has always possessed the quality of glory - it is part of His essence. This truth is reflected all through Scripture, and in the world He created. The theologian Thomas Merton found excitement and delight in the idea, writing, “The whole world is charged with the glory of God and ...
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.” Psalm 19:1 The name Elohim occurs more than 2,250 times in the Bible. Elohim [yihl\a] (God), a plural...
God is faithful (Psalm 31:5) and shows us the wonders of his love (21). Our son Eric needed slides of his paintings for a college application. However, several days of overcast skies made it impossible to sufficiently light his work and show it to best advantage. The deadline was fast...
Our God of grace changes us, progressively transforming us into his likeness with ever-increasing glory (2 Corinthians 3:18). Our God of grace works in us so he can work through us—all to his and our mutual delight (Philippians 2:13). He is a passionately dedicated, perfectly-intentioned...
7. “God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.”–Dietrich Bonhoeffer 8. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”– Augustine 9. “No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on...
Jesus revealed in His prayer that before anything was created, God, the Father, and the Son were eternally One, and that through the Son, the world was created for the purpose of eternal life in His creatures. The prayer is a gift to us who believe God’s Word. In it we learn of ...
Genesis 1:27 Meaning and Commentary Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image Which consisted both in the form of his body, and the erect stature of it, different from all other creatures; in agreement with the idea of that body, prepared in covenant for the Son of God, and ...
God created us. God knows what we need. God knows we need down-time. Psalm 139 reveals this intimate knowledge that God has for each of us: 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern...
We remind our bodies that they were created for God, and not the other way around. Fasting and prayer is a way for us to turn our bodies from an enemy into an ally in the fight against the sinfulness and principalities of this world. “…God did what the law could not do. He ...