Holy Father, I know that I am should come to You in great confidence, as You promised never to leave me (Hebrews 13:5-6). However Father, there are times that my emotions waiver and stumble. Indeed, You have authority over all my fleshliness (John 17:2) which includes my emotions. Yet, I also know there to be many days that my confidence …
During the twenty years that we lived overseas, I often lost track of upcoming American holidays. Before wide-spread internet connection, I have to admit that the last Monday of May was usually spent with end of the year parties and summer plans. Yet, I vividly remember my first Memorial Day weekend back in the states in 2007. As …
“For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them” (Matthew 25:14). Jesus is away on His journey. He has journeyed back into the heavenlies to prepare a place for you and I (John 14:3). He has freed us from sin and made us His …
First Class. If you have ever flown, you have had opportunity to envy those passengers. While you stood in line awaiting your group to be called, they boarded first, chose their pre-flight drink and settled into their roomy seats. While you shuffled past with your mounds of carry-on’s, their items had either been complimentarily checked or stowed in …
“He brought us out from there in order to bring us in” (Deuteronomy 6:23). You can remember the day that the Lord called you into His Kingdom. You heard His voice. He stirred your heart and you answered. He revealed your sin and you humbly received His forever forgiveness. In the twinkling of an eye, He “called you …
If your family or friends have been touched by Alzheimer’s, you too have probably struggled every time you forget a detail or misplace an item. Fear plays a huge part of the onset of this disease. Rather than remaining crippled by anxiety, I have found Psalm 71 an amazing antidote to the clutches of fear, especially as it relates …
Drawing his neck upward, he wrenched his mouth open in a final, silent cry — the last gesture he would ever make. The bull’s severed head, pooling now in it’s own blood, stood upright by the stump of his neck in the dusty arena. The nearby ritual of the Malaysian priest was lost to me. All I could see …
“Christ is the end of the Law” (Romans 10:4). He is the end of all your jots and tittles — the end of all the ought-to’s and should-have’s. He ended the need for the Law because through Him all requirements are complete (Romans 8:4). It is finished (John 19:30). The requirement for perfection has now been fulfilled within you. …
Okay, so now I know what “sustained 85-mile-an-hour” winds do to a city. One hospital lost quite a few windows and another about half their roof. Minor really, considering the winds had tornadic tendencies. Our own neighborhood is still without power and has quite a few downed trees. As I replay the force of Wednesday night’s storm, …
My dear Child, We need to have a talk. I know that you truly want to be free and we’ve talked about it quite a bit. Yet, there is still that one thing that keeps pulling you down. Now, don’t get me wrong. I can forgive you over and again….70×7 and then some (Matthew 18:22). But, I …
