\”Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.\” — Psa 97:11. WRITING OF Emerson, Margaret Fuller says in her diary: \”Emerson has been here this morning with a sunbeam in his face.\” It is recorded of Daniel Rowlands, the famous Welsh preacher—to hear whom on the Sunday morning people would…
You’re Designed for Extremes I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot—Revelation 3:15 There are three approaches to life with God: All In; All Out; and, in the middle, between those, a third approach. This third approach is actually a range—it encompasses every approach between…
You’re Magnetic Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?—Mark 2:16 God loves us—just as we are, right now. Wow. That’s kind of difficult to accept, isn\’t it? I mean, it’s hard to feel worthy of that love, with all our mistakes, our imperfections. Don’t we need to be perfect and holy too, just…
Blessed be the Lord— day after day he carries us along. He’s our Savior, our God, oh yes! He’s God-for-us, he’s God-who-saves-us. Lord GOD knows all death’s ins and outs. What’s more, he made heads roll, split the skulls of the enemy As he marched out of heaven, saying, “I tied up the Dragon in…
The Next Chapter . . . he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come—2 Corinthians 5:17 We write with God all the time. Working alongside him, we write the stories of our lives. He creates the settings and the characters. He creates the conflicts—the situations requiring choices. And…