On our flight back from China, my wife Annie snapped this photo, marveling at the boundless beauty she had just captured. “Oh how beautiful!” she gushed. We sat there for a few minutes reflecting with awe at God’s beautiful creation, amazed at the enormity of His love...
Psalm 37:4 – Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. What does it mean to take Delight in the Lord? Genesis 18:3-8 is great example of what it means to delight in the Lord. In this portion of the bible, Abraham is sitting in the front...
Gen 22:12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” To fear the Lord is to trust the Lord, to trust is to fear the Lord; the two go hand in hand....
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. (Col 1:15 ESV) One of my favorite things to do when I stay with my sister in Shiloh, Georgia is sit on her porch and enjoy God’s beautiful creation. Before anyone wakes, I rock in the chair on her...
“Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to...
“A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion.” (Mark 4:37-38a ESV) “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is...
