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You have been separated from your Father ever since you were born and now you get word from far away that you are to inherit a beautiful home from him. You receive a description of the house and the gardens and a broad idea of the location. There are directions about...
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." (3 John 1:4) Bringing up kids is no easy task. Bringing up kids whose parents are in the ministry can be daunting. When the Committee on Ministry interviewed me for the position at...
"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." (Ecclesiastes 11:1) One summer my daughter and I took a traveling vacation together. Our son loaned us his second-hand car but warned us that he couldn't guarantee a trouble free trip. As we...
"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." (1 John 4:8 NIV) I just couldn’t find it. I looked everywhere. I read through my Bible again and again. I looked in all the inspirational books I own. I checked out the other sacred texts as well. I...
"I will bless the LORD who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me." (Psalm 16: 7 NLT) “Oh God, this day has been so hard.” I state as I walk though my doorway. One of the first things I see is my journal and my writing pen. I slump into the chair, switch...
“While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus. And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.’” (Matt 9:32-33 NIV)...
"Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.'" (Matt 16:24 NIV) During the Newsboys concert we attended last week, the lead singer asked a question, one he didn't have an answer for, and...
"You shall not ual relations with your kinsman's wife, and defile yourself with her. You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an...
"I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all-oh, how well I remember- the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on...
"Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ." (Ephesians 4:15 NIV) When visiting one of my daughters, her 4 year old son was watching me put on my make up. He wondered what I was doing so told him...
"Let love be your highest goal." (1 Corinthians 14-1) I have heard this and believed it all my life, how God loves all his creation, from the smallest creatures to his human children, and amazingly so. But I don't think the point was driven home to me until last...
"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father . . . So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." (Matthew 10: 29,31 NIV) Several years ago, when my family's bird population...
"He is in your hands," King Zedekiah answered. "The king can do nothing to oppose you." (Jeremiah 38:5) Jeremiah 38 v1-10 reads like a Shakespearean play lots of intrigue, conspiracy, and victimization going on. Zedekiah's indifference and ambivalence reveal the real...