who is the specialist of the impossible, who made a way through the Red Sea, who broke the power of death, who would climb any mountain to find you, who died to save you. . . is God. Your God, who sees your tears, who bottles them up, who knows your every thought,...
Praise God for our abilities to see, smell, hear, taste, and touch, allowing us to enjoy Spring in so many ways! Even better, those abilities allow us tomeet Godin at least five ways. Our five senses help us understand God more clearly. Consider how the far-flung stars and planets spe...
We come to God in prayer often much like the characters in the stories I mentioned would come to the Genie. “I would like A, B and C. Thank you very much.” We use verses on prayer so drastically out of context that we have convinced ourselves that God owes us an answer to our ...
There is power in this way of referring to sex. It shows the high, interpersonal terms in which the Bible sees the sexual relationship. Most terms and phrases people use for sex today are either coarse or violent, but the Bible sees sex as a means of knowing one another in a committed ...
He’ll let us know God isn’t pleased with us based on our performance, or we’ll have to start all over earning our “blessing points.” All lies. Like a husband going after a cheating wife, God sees us intentionally missing the mark, but continues to pursue us, desiring a more ...
His truth to triumph thro’ us.” My mind wandered a bit.I wonder how many scriptural truths promise the result of triumph through us—verses like “My God will meet all your needs.”[2]There must be hundreds! A bit of research revealed that Luther based his hymn on these scriptural tr...
Godet sees the Pharisaic position in the question of Nicodemus, "Art thou the Messiah? is the kingdom of God near, as thy miracles seem to indicate?" He was assuming that, as a Pharisee, he had nothing to do but walk in the light, the dawn of which was revealed to him in the ...
For him, there is no foreknowledge because he simultaneously sees all of history. However, from our perspective—inside of time—we can speak of God’s foreknowledge because he can reveal to us what will happen in the future. We just need to be careful not to confuse this humanly accommodat...
17If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. ...
Each week, covers a specific topic. For example, the first week reminds us that how God sees us is different than how we see ourselves. Week 2 focuses on examples of mental illness in the Bible (think depression and anxiety aren’t biblical? You’ll love this week!), while Week 3 tal...