1 John, believe, Bible, Bible study, God, hope, peace, trust
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. – 1 John 4:15-16 The chick on the Bible study video, Kelly Minter, honed in on the word “know” this...
believe, Bible, faith, God, Psalms, trust
David makes a simple observation in Psalm 28 that has stuck with me for a couple of weeks now, so perhaps it is important… He writes, “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me,” (Psalm 28:7). Now, I don’t...
believe, Bible, faith, Genesis, God, trust
There’s a slightly crazy story in the Bible that speaks to the slightly crazy in my life, even though some of the details are a bit different. Abraham. God chose this nothing-special-about-him man to be the patriarch through which God would grow His people and,...
believe, Bible, Jesus, Matthew, speaking, Uncategorized
I had the privilege of speaking at a Mothers of Preschoolers meeting Wednesday morning. I got to speak on the conversation between Jesus and His disciples from Matthew 16 in which Jesus asks two questions: 1) Who do people say the Son of Man is? 2) Who do you say I...
believe, Church, discipleship, Ephesians, evangelism, God, Gospel, grace, Jesus, Luke, Matthew, salvation
I started reading a Bonhoeffer book last week. He wrote it in the 1930’s, but it reads as if he wrote it yesterday. Is the price that we are paying today with the collapse of organized churches anything else but an inevitable consequence of grace acquired too...
believe, Bible, God, Jesus, John, Mark, resurrection, thomas
The other day I read the account of poor Thomas (dude doubted ONE TIME, and he’s never lived it down… maybe we ought to have a little grace and stop calling him Doubting Thomas? Or start calling ALL Christians Doubting <insert name here>? I...
