God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. Jude 1:16 NIV A man went on a trip with his two brothers. They drove up to visit relatives in another state. They left their advanced metropolitan society behind them and... Continue Reading →
How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? Hebrews 10:29 NIV An injury left a man unable... Continue Reading →
Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. Hebrews 10:11 NIV Every week they held mass in a chapel at the religious institution where she worked. One day, when it was time to go forward and partake... Continue Reading →
For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." Hebrews 8:12 NIV On a high school backpacking trip the teenagers found themselves camping near a beautiful mountain lake. In the grass and crystal clear water by the shore they started finding and catching harmless snakes. They managed to collect more... Continue Reading →
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? Romans 10:14 NIV In this world we look for the secret steps that will open all the golden... Continue Reading →
'Leave your country and your people,' God said, 'and go to the land I will show you.' Acts 7:3 (NIV) Instead of showing his own innocence Stephen retells the story of men who stubbornly refuse to listen to God and put Him before their traditions, their comforts and their own thinking. He starts with... Continue Reading →
The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead--whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. Acts 5:30 (NIV) What a crass manner to accuse their accusers! The Disciples point out recklessly to the jury of their own guilt in the death of Jesus Christ. Crazy! Insane! Nobody wants to hear... Continue Reading →
Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow. John 18:27 (NIV) He is in a difficult spot. Peter is challenged over his dealings with the Lord. They are accusing him of being a Jesus freak right in the moment when it is not the safe thing to do. This could... Continue Reading →
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