“Accordingly, we urge our young people to begin today to write and keep records of all the important things in their own lives and also the lives of their antecedents in the event that their parents should fail to record all the important incidents in their own lives. Your own private jou...
God was one step ahead as always. A friend had alerted me to a hiring spree by a local employer just the prior week, and though I hadn’t really felt a need, I’d interviewed on a “what the heck” basis. Now that employer was becoming God’s stepping stone. The layoff itself wa...
We see those experiences as the very stones upon which we now stand and view the glory of God, as stepping stones which were hewn by caring hands to match our toddling steps. Yes, evil spirits or men may have shoved those stones into our pathway, but they did neither determine the ...
When Jesus turns over the tables of greedy, manipulative, unethical, and deceptive money swindlers stepping over people to get ahead, He is un-American. When Jesus vehemently rants against the religious ruling class and calls out their fakery, evil, self-righteousness, and blasphemy, He is un-...
29 “Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Seeing what...
Theme:The Church is not called to merely respond to social crises but to light gospel fires that transform hearts and communities. “We’re not here just to put out fires but to start holy ones.” Discipleship Question:Am I advancing the gospel actively or only reacting to the world’s ch...
it is not that he saw in any merely physical sense, but that he saw with the eye of the mind, and grasped the truth which lay beneath the phenomena around him. He saw, and he who had believed before, found in this fact the stepping-stone to a higher faith. (Comp. Note onJohn 2...
Let me give you a sports analogy. In baseball a pitcher starts by stepping on the mound with a dream of throwing a perfect game. Every pitcher wants to be the one to do it. It has been done only 24 times in MLB history. They did it, they completed a perfect game, these pitchers ...
ThisGood News, means an eternal life that begins now! Stepping out of whatever deception darkness has you held in and into a Life filled with Light, purpose, direction, forgiveness and freedom! Jesus said,“I came that they may have and enjoy life, have it to the full, in abundance unti...
some moments you can just have fun and bring that enjoyment to the camera and use that kind of thing as a stepping board. There’s a really beautiful dynamic where we kind of—without speaking about it—understand that at some point, if somebody else is doing the heavy lifting, we wa...