It wasn’t enough to give the earth light, to stretch out land and fill our sky with the sun, moon and stars… God wasn’t done yet. In today’s reading in Genesis, so far God has: Created light and changed the darkness on Day 1. Separated sky from water on Day
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If I had tried to forgive him any sooner it would not have been genuine. It would have been a religious type of forgiveness where I knew it was the right thing to do, but deep down I would have been still holding on to the offense. I told
The fact that God didn’t rescue Jesus from the cross is one of the hardest truths to accept. Jesus willingly and obediently endured the unimaginable so we wouldn’t have to. There was no shortcut to the cross nor a dulling of the pain our Lord had to suffer. The truth
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire. – Mark 9:43 Recently, a woman in our town visited the ER. She was sick and did
Working as a cruise and tour director, I have a different lifestyle and timetable than many of my friends. I am in a different place every day, with no weekends or holidays. This makes it very difficult to have a regular routine. There is one routine I never give up,
I have struggled with a sense of shame almost my whole life. Some of my earliest memories of school involve an overwhelming sense of shame. I vividly remember being in kindergarten and one of my classmates already knowing how to read. Right after learning one of the letters assigned for
Shame is sneaky. It likes to hide and makes us want to hide and become invisible with it. It holds us back and makes us feel as though we are not enough. It zaps our confidence and likes to remind us of all our short comings. Whether we like to
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ —Matthew 22:36-39 The
God flooded the earth, washed it clean, and started over. This time, though, He started with a family and a promise. And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations” I will