That’s good news too, because “there is no perfect life, no perfect job, no perfect childhood, no perfect marriage, and no set of people who always do what we expect them to do. “What we do have is a perfect God who is able to lead us through this imperfect life with unfailing...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionAnd when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother."’”New Living TranslationWhen God called me to leave my father’...
The disjunctive clause at the beginning of the verse (note the conjunction with prepositional phrase, followed by two more prepositional phrases in apposition and then the imperfect verb form) signals a change in mood from announcement (vv. 17-18) to instruction. Genesis 6:19 tn The Hiphil ...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionThis day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that ...
We are sinful people. We can strive to live up to the expectations people set for us, but we will almost always fall short. We can make promises, and we can genuinely desire to change our ways and live up to the promises we make – but we are imperfect people. We will let ...
Quietly cultivating a simple life, deliberately choosing to stay home with my babies, growing in love and respect for my imperfect husband and honoring the time and resources that I’ve been given by joying in them…all of this speaks more loudly than I could ever know, testifying that the...
We, imperfect melodramatic teenagers, are God’s plan to show mercy to God’s children. We are to be messengers, calling the people to repent and turn from their evil ways. When they do, we don’t look down our noses at them, we rejoice and welcome them, God’s mercy lived out.God...
While it has many practical uses, I see there is one reason it is such a symbol of immortality: it is an evergreen. This may seem like a simple fact to the majority of the people that live in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Americas and Northern Europe, you can’t travel for any...
That’s good news too, because “there is no perfect life, no perfect job, no perfect childhood, no perfect marriage, and no set of people who always do what we expect them to do. “What we do have is a perfect God who is able to lead us through this imperfect life with unfailing...
MV: (Know?)…Where there is knowledge it will pass away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. I Cor. 13:8b, 9 & 10 FV: I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter th...