“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’” (John 3:3 NIV)I used to love celebrating birthdays. It isn’t the custom to celebrate birthdays in the Southeast Asian culture where I was born, but it was a...
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa 55:8-9) No…No…Twenty-Twenty Vision has nothing...
Continuing to focus on how our Heavenly Father’s perspective differs in relation to finite “intelligent” men of this World, today we come to yet another subject (penultimate part of the Series)… Lofty… In the sight of Perfect One, the one who is lowly is the lofty...
We turned a long patch of grass into a flower bed today. We knew the grass would have to be removed in order to have a weed-free bed, and after significant research, we decided on a procedure for removing the grass problem that seemed the easiest and most economical...
"It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us." (Romans 8:33b-34 NIV) When you go to the same grocery store every week, you...
"I think I'm about to lose my job," a friend told me, "The writing is on the wall." "Goodness, I'm so sorry," I said. "If that happens, just remember that God has a plan for your life." After a long pause he said, "I don't believe in God. I think man invented a god to...
While I was taking a walk in the park, I noticed a pair of swans just over the fence. They were drinking water from a stream which flowed down from the hills above the town. The water was fresh and clean. The swans had been swimming around in the sea which is salt...
Have you ever picked seashells by the seashore? If so, then you're aware that many of the shells can be in small pieces, broken and crushed. You might even be lucky enough to find a shell that is absolutely perfect, undamaged and without blemish. Recently my wife and...
He is the king who reigns on high, But came to this world so that he may die; He was born as a babe in Bethlehem, But was destined to become The Great I Am; He taught in the temple as a youthful lad, But the words that he spoke made the Pharisees mad; He healed the...
I turned toward a new friend seated beside me during a writer's conference. "He's got to be kidding! Did I hear him right? Did he say what I thought he said?"Those questions ricocheted in this crazy chica's head when I heard him described what he did on the side.I let...