believe, Bible, evil, Genesis, God, Jesus, John, self worth
I don’t know if it’s a female thing or a human thing, but I seem to spend a lot of time and energy working toward one thing: feeling secure. Safe. Stable. Accepted. We can find security in a lot of different places… how much money is in our bank...
anxiety, believe, Bible, fear, God, Jonah, obedience, pain, sin, spiritual growth, trust
“Sometimes it feels like I am being swallowed whole. Like this life is too much. Like I am too much.” I said that to God. And a truth popped into my head almost instantly: there is someone who knows what that feels like. Jonah was literally swallowed...
1 Chronicles, 1 Peter, 2 Samuel, believe, Bible, Colossians, Deuteronomy, evangelism, faith, God, grace, Heaven, Jesus, Nehemiah, Psalms, Revelation, Romans, sin, testimony
A concept that fascinates me in the scriptures is the idea that God chooses people. In the Old Testament, He chose a lot of individuals to do a lot of different things (2 Samuel 6:21, 1 Chronicles 15:2, Nehemiah 9:7), but, overall, He chose the nation of Israel to be...
Bible, God, grace, idols, Jesus, pain, Psalms, sin, Uncategorized
Israel. Throughout the Old Testament, the nation of Israel is reamed for failing to worship God the way they were supposed to. Sometimes they forgot. Sometimes they remembered but refused. You and I are just the latest models of Israel. We may wear better clothes and...
1 John, Bible, Galatians, God, grace, Jesus, Law, love, Matthew, Philippians, Romans, rules, spiritual growth
A common misconception is that Old Testament Jews were saved by keeping the law. A lot of people think if those who lived before Christ obeyed all the Jewish rules and/or made all the appropriate sacrifices when they did wrong, God would let them into Heaven. Wrong....