Psalm 36:5 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. As I look around the creation, which includes culture and people, in addition to the mountains, the beaches, and all the in between, I see the love of a Savior that adores me. He teaches me how to love my…
Matthew 5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” Luke 2:52 “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” It seems almost irreverent to suggest that Jesus had to grow in favor with God. But that is exactly what Luke tells us in Luke…
From my earliest days in Christianity, I heard preachers confessing in very serious tones, “I am just a sinner, saved by Grace.” This sounds great and very spiritual. I never questioned that sort of idea and took it on as my own identity. After all, the Apostle Paul called himself the chief of sinners,…
People often rise and fall on the image of how we see them. There is a story told about a man in a small village of England, who the literature refers to as a “sot”. A sot is a drunkard. Think of Otis from Andy Griffith. Otis’s identity was as the town drunk. Nobody expected…
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