God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 1st John 5:14 The boy fell in love with a girl from his high school. They started dating. She liked him too. But, eventually, her parents convinced her that she should not marry... Continue Reading →
The Son of God, the Son of Man, had to spend some time buried away. But He rose just like He said He would. Our hopes can rise with Him too! We can wake up to faith in Jesus Christ! What might it mean for us today if we can just let the resurrection of... Continue Reading →
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 1st John 3:9 NIV The little guy was walking around his garden one day with some friends. They passed by where the gardener had the... Continue Reading →
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 1st John 2:1 NIV It was a simple camp near a spring of water. A stream ran by. They were... Continue Reading →
Sometimes the Lord will remove loved ones or things that are close to our heart. This does not have to be a bad thing. It can work miracles for us if it brings us closer to Christ. If we can grow our relationship with the Savior, and our trust is strengthened, then there will be... Continue Reading →
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 1st John 1:5 NIV They left the paved road behind and climbed into the Southern California hills. As they left the city lights behind them the only light they had... Continue Reading →
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. 2nd Peter 3:13 NIV In a beautiful setting in the hills far outside of town, two families bought neighboring farms. One man built a lovely cottage nestled in a peaceful hollow higher... Continue Reading →
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 2nd Peter 3:8 NIV In a fish pond in the garden, a family kept a baby crocodile that somebody had found. Time went by and the cute... Continue Reading →
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 2nd Peter 2:20 NIV The beam of the spotlight cut through the blackness of the night.... Continue Reading →
if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment. 2nd Peter 1:9 Proud of his new jeep, a young man took his friends for a drive into the trails that wound between some sand... Continue Reading →
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