God’s ownership of everything is a foreign conceptto most of us. We like to think ofourmoney andourpossessions. Yet the Bible makes it clear that God owns everything. All things were created by him and for him (Colossians 1:16).Everythingbelongs to him. To the LORD your God belong ...
If we think God is withholding something from us, our actions will reflect it, and its effects will cascade into every aspect of our lives. But if we view him through the lens of his grace, we will experience joy and peace. Every good thing we have is because of him. He doesn’t w...
Our five senses help us connect with God more intimately in solitude. Many people call itQuiet Time—moments they spend with God in scripture reading/study, prayer, perhaps journaling, and/or listening to peaceful worship music. It’s in the quiet we begin toseeimportant realities of the spir...
In Quechua, the words mean, “We trust in God.” But they desired to do much more. “What if,” the couple dreamed, “we could establish a hospital for the Quechua people near Machu Picchu—not just a bare-bones clinic but a true hospital with everything necessary to provide excellent ...
First, that the Lord has the right to interrupt ‘my’ life any time. Afterall, he owns it, for he created it. I am used to acknowledging my lack of control when I travel by car or by plane. Those situations bring me face to face with my powerlessness. I FEEL how ephemeral life ...
everything that leads the individual outside of himself. To put a little cross on the wall and then bow before it, and see it as something external, is not what Scripture teaches. Buried in the Old Testament there is a pattern. So, he said taking the twelve, we’re going up to Jeru...
195), Sia is sometimes described as being in the eye of the sun god, empowering him to “see and understand everything that happens in the world” (Pinch 2002, p. 198). However, the Egyptians believed that perception is more closely connected to one’s heart: sia is “an action of ...
Everything He has ever done has been out of love.Here are several key implications that this attribute - God is love - that is for all people today. 1. We can trust in God’s Love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 gives several descriptions of love: "Love is patient, love is kind. It ...
I own everything you see. And you are invited to be my friend, part of my family, and if you are willing-my Chef! We will have feasts and daily bread. I am a rewarder of those who seek to love. Thank you for loving me. I appeared as lowly, sometimes dirty. You treated me ...
Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, observed the first atomic explosion at the Trinity test site. There, he cited a line from the Bhagavad Gita—a 700 verse Hindu scripture in Sanskrit that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. ...