God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2nd Corinthians 5:17 NIV There once was a man who worked in the show business. He traveled a lot and worked little. He always had some money tucked away in a bank account somewhere, and... Continue Reading →
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 2nd Corinthians 5:15 NIV After not having seen each other in some time, two men stood around to chat. One of them had been through some rough times... Continue Reading →
For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 2nd Corinthians 5:14 A girl visiting a ranch in Southern Africa was taken on a drive. There were other teenagers along that day and they laughed and joked together. The driver stopped at a small dam... Continue Reading →
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 2nd Corinthians 5:10 NIV A sports injury had left him with a small disability in his right arm. The insurance company wanted... Continue Reading →
We live by faith, not by sight. 2nd Corinthians 5:7 NIV In the evening they parked the car a short distance from the hide. It was a small platform made of poles that stood a few meters off the ground. The animal-viewing platform was in a remote game ranch in Africa and overlooked one... Continue Reading →
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 2nd Corinthians 5:6 NIV They gave the man a tie and a button-up shirt. They had invited him to church, but his clothes just didn´t quite fit the occasion. When... Continue Reading →
For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 2nd Corinthians 5:4 NIV A good-hearted Christian woman once took a young man in to... Continue Reading →
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2nd Corinthians 5:1 NIV Sent to do a job in Italy a small team of workers was not impressed with where their employers provided for... Continue Reading →
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2nd Corinthians 4:18 NIV His attention should have been on the sermon. But the speaker rambled on. His mind began to wander from the preacher´s words to... Continue Reading →
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 2nd Corinthians 4:17 NIV Two months after the accident a man found himself checking into the hospital for his operation. One wrong move had torn a ligament in his knee and now he would have a... Continue Reading →
Searching For Christ 