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Category Archives: Encouragement
Is Our Faith Real?
James 2:20-26 uses the story of Abraham to help us see if our faith is biblical faith, or if it’s something else. God told Abraham to go and offer his son Isaac on the mountain. This is the same God … Continue reading
Meditation, James 1
The “testing of your faith produces endurance” (James 1:3). God is using situations around us to apply pressure to us and our faith. Some of us think we’ll grow spiritually by reading something and understanding it. But the fruit of … Continue reading
A Father’s Gift
The Word of God is a declaration of the love of God the Father to His Son. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons in one God, what the Christians call the Trinity. This is how God describes … Continue reading
Meditation in Mark 8, A Deeper Healing
Some of the townsfolk brought a blind man to Jesus and urged Him to touch him (Mark 8:22-25). Here’s a blind man wondering, “Who is this stranger? What does He want? What is going on here?” Jesus, seeing the true … Continue reading
Becoming a People of Faith
This is another article in the series that addresses how the Word of God changes us. We want to be people of God. How does the Bible get us there? Hebrews 11:1 gives us important traits about the biblical faith … Continue reading
Letter to a Pen Pal
I had a thought. (I get those now and then.) People say the Bible is a handbook of life. But not quite. It doesn’t tell us which college to enter, which person to marry, which career to go into, right? … Continue reading
Meditation: “Love one Another” (1 Corinthians 13)
First Corinthians 13:1-8 has been oft quoted at weddings simply because its topic is love. But Paul the apostle did not have marriage in mind when he wrote this. He had church gatherings in view. First Corinthians 13 is the … Continue reading
Your God is Too Small
I’ve been reading a book for the second time since I rediscovered it in the bargain bin: Your God Is Too Small, by J.B. Phillips. What he wrote about Christians and their small love applies to what I’ve been reading … Continue reading
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The Incarnation of the Son of God
Before we can address the theme of the Son of God becoming flesh, we should remind ourselves of why he came to be born here in the first place. In the Garden of Eden, Adam chose the way of disobedience … Continue reading
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Come Before His Presence with Thanksgiving
The first three verses of Psalm 95 call us to sing, give thanks, and worship the LORD, Yahweh, the Rock of salvation, the great God, the great King above all gods. This God is distinct among all the man-made gods … Continue reading