Sunday praise

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;Let them bring me to Your holy hillAnd to Your dwelling places.Then I will go to the altar of God,To God my exceeding joy;And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God. – Psalm 43:3-4, NASB

Sunday Praise

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;Let those who love Your salvation say continually,“The LORD be magnified!” – Psalm 46:16, NASB

Image Bearers

It’s a phrase you hear when people look at children or a baby and their parents. “She looks like her father,” or “he looks like his mother.” Children are the image bearers of their parents. It’s a trait that goes back to Adam and Eve. Genesis 5:1 tells us, “When God created mankind, he made […]

Sunday Praise

This morning I am resuming weekly posts focused on praising God each Sunday morning. As we begin the week, let us lift our hands in honor of our loving God. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.” – Revelation 4:8 (NASB)

Awaken in Case of an Emergency

And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep. – Matthew 8:24, NASB When you are surrounded by a raging storm in your life, how do you respond? Are you like Jesus, asleep in the boat while the waves […]

Compassion in Grief

When we suffer loss, the grief can be overwhelming. Jesus felt that same pain when he learned that his cousin John the Baptist was beheaded by Herod. “Now when Jesus heard about John, He withdrew from there in a boat to a secluded place by Himself (Matthew 14:13).” It’s hard to see God’s purpose in […]

A Heart Captured by God

There are times when the bad news someone gives us touches our heart in a deep and profound way. We can’t get it out of our mind. Nehemiah shows us what we should do when God touches our heart with empathy for the struggles of others. When Nehemiah learned that the remnant in Jerusalem “are […]

Collateral Salvation

I was sitting in the booth in a restaurant telling the person sitting across from me about my faith in Jesus. They were not a believer and it seemed they were more determined to oppose me than listen to what I had to say. Our discussion seemed pointless until we slid out of the booth […]

The Fire Within

For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel (Exodus 40:38, NASB). You are not alone on this journey called life. God is with you every step of the way, guiding […]

Are You Ready to Receive?

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people. Luke 9:16, NASB There’s a line in Luke 9:16 that caught my attention: “and kept giving them.” Jesus took what the disciples […]