Sunday Praise

Why, my soul, are you downcast?Why so disturbed within me?Put your hope in God,for I will yet praise him,my Savior and my God. – Psalm 42:11, NIV

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)

BOGO Faith

On a recent shopping trip I saw a BOGO (buy one get one free) sale. It made me stop and take notice. Two for the price of one is better than just one. That led me think of Ecclesiastes 4:9: “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor (NASB).” […]

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 […]

God Working Through Us

There are consequences when we take things into our own hands instead of waiting on God to work through us. Moses is an example for us. In his younger years, God saved him from being killed as a baby and placed him in Pharaoh’s household (Exodus 2:1-10). He was strategically positioned by God to save […]

Keep Silent While I Fight for You

You’ve left the life you’ve known for years to follow God. As you embark on your journey of faith, your adversary pursues you, determined as ever to stop you. It appears they will over power you with a force more powerful than you think you can muster. The fear that stirred in the Israelites as […]

What You Really Need to Live

How much do you need to live? In Exodus 16, the Israelites have just left Egypt and are complaining about their lack of food. “You have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger,” they tell Moses (3, NASB). God told Moses that he would provide “bread from heaven” for […]

Support for the Battles of Life

There are times in life when the enemy wears us down. The battle becomes too much and it seems evil will prevail. By ourselves we grow weary from the fight. Yet it is not our battle to fight alone. Exodus 17:8-12 gives us a great image of how to fight against the enemies we face. […]

What Are You Holding Back?

What does it mean to give it all to God, to obey all he asks you to do? There may be things we are not aware of that we place above God. In Genesis 22, Abraham is tested to see if he placed above God one thing he holds near and dear to his heart. […]