Make Your Calling Sure

Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, 2nd Peter 1:10 NIV   They had been selected out of all the other children in the high school to be on the gymnastics team. They trained each week to... Continue Reading →

All It Takes

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2nd Peter 1:3 NIV   His kayak floated in the blue water of the pool. A teenager sat in the cockpit and set up for the Eskimo roll... Continue Reading →

Restore Us

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 1st Peter 5:10 NIV   The mosquito had gotten the better of him. He fell deathly ill. Malaria set in, and with... Continue Reading →

We Are Different Instruments

We must not think that we have to be like another person to be a follower of Christ. We don´t even have to sound like the other. The Lord made us different for a purpose. As long as we are tuned to Jesus Christ, then the harmony will ring with glorious beauty as we each... Continue Reading →

Rich

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. James 5:1 NIV   It was during their teenage years when the boys were so in love with cars. They dreamt of them day and night. One day they were waiting outside a shopping center for their mother... Continue Reading →

Persevere

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. Hebrews 10:36   The group of sightseers got off the bus, climbed the stairs, and assembled on top of the Great Wall of China. Before their guide released them to take photos and appreciate... Continue Reading →

The Radiance

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.    Hebrews 1: NIV   They came down from Berlin to visit some friends in... Continue Reading →

Boast

Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."  1st Corinthians 1:31  NIV He sat anxiously in the pew remembering fondly when his parents brought him to church each week.  But those years were lost now to the busy pressures of life.  He was pleased when the speaker stepped up to... Continue Reading →

AMEN

to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.  Romans 16:27  NIV Glory be to God in the Highest!  We say the words.  They were taught to us early.  We sing the songs.  Sometimes we even feel a lift of soul when we do.  We can come to church.  We can go... Continue Reading →

See Into Heaven

He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.  Acts 10:11 (NIV)   On the rooftop he finds himself ravished with hunger.  He devotes himself to prayer.  The man of God turns his attention towards Heaven.  Then God opens the door!  He peels back the... Continue Reading →

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