First of all, I want to wish all mothers an abundantly blessed Mother’s Day. Thank you for all the amazing things you do. The normal passage into motherhood is childbearing. But some women who have never given birth to a child become mothers through adoption or …
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” (Matthew 22:36, NIV). A man asked Jesus that question. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” He replied (verse 37, NIV). “This is the first …
“Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” (Matthew 18:1, KJV). The disciples asked Jesus this question. He responded by placing a little child in the midst of them. As He often did, He used their question for a teachable moment. “Except ye be converted, …
Do you ever doubt the fact that God fulfills His promises? Sometimes, we are guilty of treating God as if He were a man. We may not realize that we are doing this even when we are. For instance, we may regard a situation as hopeless …
“Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about” (Gen. 22:2, NIV). That’s what God told Abraham to do at the …
In Psalm 137, the psalmist writes about a time when the Jews were in captivity in Babylon. While there, the Babylonians asked them to, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion” (Psalm 137:3). These were the songs the Jews used to sing in the Promised …
“Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new,” Paul writes (2 Corinthians 5:17, KJV.) The fact that we have become a new creation in Christ does not mean we automatically live …
As for the question posed by the title of this post, you may be thinking well, yeah, my spouse and I are Christians. But just because the two of you are Christians does not mean God is an active partner in your marriage. He may be …
Facing the cross of Calvary, Jesus’ human side showed up big time. He felt the weight of the burden He would bear. How would you like to know the exact day you were going to die and the barbaric way it was going to occur? “My …
