As Christians, we want to experience God through the Bible… we really do! But our good intentions fall flat when reading the Bible just doesn’t seem to help us experience God in a real way. What should feel dynamic and important and alive often feels confusing and boring and irrelevant....
In one of the key verses of the whole Bible, John in the same letter presents the love of God over against three forms of idolatry: "Don't love the world or the things in the world. If somebody loves the world, they don't have the father's love in them. Everything in the world...
Secondly, the Bible teaches us to love one another. Ephesians 4:2 says “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” What we can take from this is that everyone is on a journey. Some people have terrible vices, others struggle with what we identify ...
Here are torn pistol belts and canvas water buckets, first-aid kits and jumbled heaps of lifebelts. I picked up a pocket Bible with a soldier's name in it, and put it in my jacket. I carried it half a mile or so and then put it back down on the beach. I don't know why I ...
• Teaches important lessons about overcoming hatred and forgiving old enemies. • Discusses forgiveness and love from a Biblical perspective. • Bible Verses in the story: - But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for...
We see lots of churches in our user database turning to daily text reminders to send daily Bible verses. These can provide inspiration, encouragement, and comfort to individuals, offering a moment of reflection or motivation at the start or end of the day. ...
I remember studying all the verses about being lukewarm and being the wise and not foolish virgins. I was trying so hard to “get it” and “be ready.” I knew that we were only saved by grace, I knew we could only come to the Father because of the perfect blood of Jesus, but ...
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7, ESV God showed His love through Jesus, and if we deny His love and redemptive work then we are still under His wrath. Only a food rejects Christ. Daniel M. Klem CATEGORY Bible...
Scripture About Worry, Anxiety & Depression Before I share these encouraging Bible verses about worry (see also: stress and anxiety) I just want to say how much these scriptures have impacted my life. Like any addiction, the first step began with admitting that to myself that the worry I ...
Thought I’d share a few Bible verses in case you would like to stay your mind on our God’s faithfulness too. God is not a man, that He might lie, or a son of man, that He might change His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill? Numbers 33:19 ...