How can we, as sinful humans, pray the prayers in the Psalms that talk about how we are perfect? Only by the blood of Jesus!
Your Faithfulness
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Righteousness
God’s Gift of Righteousness
We need somebody to give us righteousness, to make a free gift out of it—because we surely aren’t going to earn it. Who can do that?
Are My Prayers Making ANY Impact? At All?
It is hard to keep praying when your prayers don’t seem to be resulting in any change. Are your prayers having ANY impact?
Righteousness
[Jesus said] "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished....
Lenten Devotions: Curtain
"And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed His last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom." (Mark 15:37-38 ESV)Curtains are for hiding things. They cover up windows when we don't want people to look in, or block hospital beds when people...
Lenten Devotionals: An Ordinary Guy
"And a young man followed Him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked." (Mark 14:51-52 ESV)Who was the young man? Some people think it is Mark himself, as he is the only one who even mentions...
The Meeting
"Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other. Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky." (Psalm 85:10-11 ESV)Due to pandemic restrictions, many people in business offices and extended families...
The Seed: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 3
On Tuesday and Thursday this past week, I told the story of how we built garden boxes and filled them with dirt, and how this gave me a whole new perspective on mountain-moving faith and the faith that Abraham must have had when he left his home to wander in a foreign...
The Star Sapphire
My mother gave me a gold ring set with a star sapphire when I graduated from high school. The rounded, polished sapphire appears as a rich, dark blue in subdued light, but a direct light on it reveals a sharply defined six pointed star. Its appearance is caused by...
Hand-me-Downs
"We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God's Good News but our own lives, too." (1 Thessalonians 2:7-9, NLT) Aside from socks and underwear at Christmas and an occasional new pair of sneakers, I nevergot any new clothes as a child. What I got were...