Have you ever heard of Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah? It's possible you haven't. Yet they changed their world. They were the five daughters of Zelophehad who demanded their rights in a patriarchal society. They decided they could not accept that their father's lineage would disappear […]
This Saturday evening, sitting in the presence of God before tomorrow's service, I am very moved; and if I write this, it is only to release some of the intensity of the moment; how can I cry on the screen? Indeed, in drawing closer to God, I have always wondered what He could possibly find in us.
Don't you sometimes feel like Abraham? No, not Abraham the father of faith, nor Abraham when he believed and it was counted to him as righteousness, no, not at that moment. Rather, like that Abraham called by God, who walked with God, who was mightily blessed by
How is this possible, how can I believe such glorious, such wonderful things and yet not be completely consumed by them? Is this not the worst vileness that can exist? Is this not proof, if proof were needed, of the yawning gap that exists between unredeemed man and a holy God? How can I attest to faith in a
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thoughts, prayerWe spent some time contemplating Christ in Colossians. What a sight of glory, of wonder, a vision of extraordinary majesty and inexpressible beauty—the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn, the One for whom and through whom all things were created, the One in whom dwells all the fullness of God bodily, …. and one
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general, thoughts'This man took Jesus at his word and went home.' Every now and then I come across a Bible verse that I'd like to see inscribed in my epitaph, and this is one of them. A desperate father comes to beg Jesus to please come to his house and heal his son who is
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faith, thoughts, Top storiesIt's a pleasure to read the Gospels, well, until you get to the end; the end is where Jesus was crucified and it's definitely less pleasant to see Him experience the anguish of the redemptive sacrifice; but, He gets through it and at the very end, everything is fine again. But before we get to
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