God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
When some kind of global disaster strikes like the outbreak of the Coronavirus, we may be tempted to wonder how God could allow this to happen. We may be tempted to think like people with a low vision of God do. We may question His love, His care, or His power to remove our pain... Continue Reading →
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. Revelation 1:7 On a crowded beach onetime, a family took a walk in some tidal pools to see what they could find. The... Continue Reading →
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Jude 1:20 NIV They wanted to put a well on the property. They just needed to find the right place to put it. The tribal people had an old way of telling where the water was.... Continue Reading →
We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true--even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 1st John 5:20 NIV A child picked up the... Continue Reading →
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1st John 4:12 He was really good at hiding. In his small rural school, there were not a lot of places to hide, but the children loved to play kick... Continue Reading →
For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. 1st Peter 2:19 The children were in trouble. Their mother made them wait until dad came home to receive their punishment. It made the punishment worse. Dad was grieved that he had to... Continue Reading →
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1st Peter 2:9 NIV They looked strange and out of place. You could tell in an instant that they... Continue Reading →
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 1st Peter 1:8 NIV Early one morning, in a part of the country where elephant and lion roamed, some children wandered up a... Continue Reading →
The days we live in now we are easily led to believe that we should personally be happy regardless of whether or not it makes anyone else happy. Separations are accepted more and more on this basis. Could we remember a time when we thought first of God and try to see again that He... Continue Reading →
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 1st Timothy 4:1 NIV The preacher stood to give his talk that morning. It could have been a moment of strengthening faith and of ushering souls closer to God. But that morning,... Continue Reading →
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