Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.”…
When You Don’t Know What to Do: Things That Are Always True
And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that…
Crucified with Christ
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live…
Sleep Tight
In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. —Psalm 4:8 ESV Fear gripped my throat with his strong hand…
Safe with Him
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my…
Step Into the Light
This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if…
Memories of a Wartime Christmas
“ … I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he…
The Perfect Gift
Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then…
What Was It Like?
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” —Luke…
Have a Very “Mary” Christmas
How to Have a Very “Mary” Christmas – Lessons from Mary, Mother of Jesus In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village…
Marveling at the Mundane
Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when…
The Concerns of God
He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law,…
