Now imagine this scenario: You tell anyone who is listening to call 911 while you strip down and get ready to rescue her. But all your friends and other people on the beach try their best to stop you. They tell you that she got herself into this, she needs to get herself out. They...
Please refer to Ephesians 1:11. Your singular purpose is to display My glory, that is, my attributes of love, joy, goodness, and more. Wherever you are . . . “whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men” (Colossians 3:23). And remem...
–The Children of God are the city built on a hill, the congregation of faith. This is our identity in life through Christ. This is who we are, the members of the body of Christ. The heirs to the throne of grace, peculiar people, a royal priesthood who show forth the praises of ou...
God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the Name of Jesus, every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:9-1...
They were intentionally built that way to allow a breeze to travel through the house, which had no air conditioning. I don’t remember really ever being hot because of the draft, and the strategically placed box fans. But I digress! We’d spend the evening, after supper, sliding up and...
My hotel is right across the street and it’s dark too. Everything is dark, and yet you are lit up like a Christmas tree. How can this be?” The manager said, “It’s really fairly simple. When we built this [place], we built it with a gas generator. We’ve got power on ...
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” We should imagine that it is God who built the city on the hill. It is God who lit the lamp. He has no intention of putting you ...
Another window held a display of exotic wood from around the world. The possibilities of what could be built were endless. This time it was the husbands lingering gaze that his wife noted. What a marvelous gift this would make.He was worth it. ...
The process of coming to terms with our suffering and then trusting God to resurrect a life lost to bitterness and heartbreak is painful. As this process unfolds and we open ourselves to it, we find a Love not built on the shifting sands of circumstance but founded on the sure rock of ...
He offers sacrifices, perhaps on the very altar Isaac had built many years before and is refreshed from the very well Isaac had dug.That night God speaks to Jacob in a vision:"'Jacob! Jacob!''Here I am,' he replied.'I am God, the God of your father,' he said. 'Do not be ...