Romans 5 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While…
Thinking about God, sometimes I get overswept with gratitude and awe, and yet at the same time, I am overwhelmed with my inadequacies. I want to offer something, anything to shorten the gap between His giving and my taking, but, I always, always come up short. Holy God, You are…
Who hasn’t done some sort reorganizing during this global pandemic? I suppose a look inward is appropriate. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. I had read years ago…
My father, who died in 2017, saved a short story I recognized as my mother’s in his Bible. She gave me his Bible and everything he carried in its case a couple of years ago, I never looked in it until last week. I wanted to share it…
There are so many things going on in the world today, fear is taking a hold. Fear is not of God. God is the God of order. When God created: His power, His sovereignty, displayed for all to see through the ages. When God completed His Creation, He rested. Not…
John 2:4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” When we talk about “letting go” what exactly are we letting go of? Control? Desire? Is it the desire to have our way acknowledged and…
John 12:24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Sitting one day in the tiny hair salon getting my hair cut, I looked out the…
A dear friend of mine died last week. She lived a wonderfully full life, she was 95. Bea was a young 95 and touched so many lives. The pain in my heart that day I walked up to her to say hello, and realized I was a stranger to her…
Hebrews 5:11-14 Warning Against Falling Away We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the…
One of my favorite scripture verses is in Genesis 18. Where God meets Hagar right where she has run away to and she names Him, El Roi, The God who sees me. Later in Genesis 21, she finds herself again afraid and in trouble, though this time she is with…
