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Motherhood Is a Marathon

07/02/2017 0 Comment

I wanted to do great things for God.

In the spring of my senior year of college, on the brink of embarking upon my own journey into adulthood, my future was undecided and that was simultaneously terrifying and thrilling. As a philosophy major, my path was narrower than I had realized, but I was sure it would take me on some grand and glorious adventure.

I knew the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. “Glorify” sounds like such a grand term. It evokes images of battlefie..

Christ Is Our Passover

05/02/2017 0 Comment

God gave instructions to the Israelites so they could escape
the judgment coming on the Egyptians.

EXODUS 12:7,13 NKJ
7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two
doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
13Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where
you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and
the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the
land of Egypt.

The Egyptians had no protection from the destroyer, but t..

The Importance of Theology

04/02/2017 0 Comment

“Systematic theology thus contemplates the body of biblical teaching as a living organism, offering loving attention to its various members and tracing their organic relations to each another. Ultimately, systematic theology helps us better understand God and all things in relation to God.”

“Systematic theology” is a label with admittedly clinical connotations. It conjures a picture of the theologian as someone who takes in hand the living Word of God only to dissect and dismember the body of b..

More than Conquerors

04/02/2017 0 Comment

PassageRomans 8:34-37
PrayerDear Father, our ultimate security and joy,Since Christ Jesus, who died, is at your right hand interceding for us, who shall separate us from your love? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? No, not even the sword, for it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”Shall any of these terrible things change your love one bit? No, in all these things..

1 John 4:9 (02-03-17)

03/02/2017 0 Comment

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.— 1 John 4:9 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse…
Showing love is about sharing life with someone else. No one quite epitomizes this principle like Jesus! His sacrifice, however, is what saved us and brought us to our new life in Christ. Now God wants us to show his love to others by sharing it in ways that they can understand and appreciate.

Christian, Your Pain Is Never Punishment

02/02/2017 0 Comment

Every day, disease eroded her youthful loveliness.

Every minute, her mother stood at her bedside and cherished her.

My patient was a teenage girl, and when jaundice sallowed her face to mustard color, her mother massaged her skin with jasmine lotion. When her eyes, vacant and bloodshot, darted about the room in delirium, her mother papered the walls with photographs and piled favorite toys around her.

The ventilator creaked and sighed, and beloved songs filled the room. In language appr..

Following and Family – Matthew 4:21-22

02/02/2017 0 Comment

Key PassageJesus continued walking by Lake Galilee. He saw two other brothers, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee. They were preparing their nets to catch fish. Jesus told the brothers to come with him. So the brothers left the boat and their father, and they followed Jesus.
— Matthew 4:21-22 ERV (Read Full Text)
Key ThoughtMost of the time, when a person comes to Christ, that person is more loved and more greatly appreciated by his or her family. ..

A Few Observations From My Recent Time in the Pit

01/02/2017 0 Comment

The Spirit used these words to draw me to Zephaniah 3:17 and Psalm 103. Places that have been a life line for me time and time again. And again I noticed in Psalm 103 how God’s love for me, His dealings with me, is not fundamentally determined by my performance but by His settled decision to cast unremitting and eternal love upon me. That’ll blew me away. And the clouds started to lift.

After a few weeks of pretty deep depression I’m beginning to see the light again. I’m still not totally sure ..

Did Jesus Ever Speak About Homosexuality?

30/01/2017 0 Comment

Whenever I get into a discussion on homosexuality I almost always encounter the line, “Jesus never spoke about homosexuality.” The pro-homosexuality party uses it as a trump card, as if it utterly shows the Christian view to be inconsistent and wrong. In this article I wish to show two things: first, how even if it were true, the “Jesus never spoke about homosexuality” line utterly fails as an argument; and second, how it is completely false.
First, as an argument, “Jesus never spoke about homos..

How to Respond to the Refugee Crisis

30/01/2017 0 Comment

The scope of today’s refugee crisis is truly unprecedented, affecting nearly 60 million people. Never before have so many been displaced, put in danger, and forced from their homes. In Syria alone, more than half of 22 million people have either been displaced or killed. More than 4 million have fled to neighboring countries. I share these numbers to remind us of the sheer enormity of this crisis.

Much of our response to the refugee crisis seems to come from a foundation of fear, not faith. Muc..