A theme of the scripture is that “everyman did what was right in his own eyes” and this was the promise of the serpent in the garden of Eden – they would be like God, determining good and evil for…
There is a song I relate to, that exposes me for who I am. It has these lines in it . . . Behold the man upon a cross, My sin upon His shoulders; Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice…
We don’t become like Christ by imitating Him. We are transformed into the image of Jesus as we behold Him. We behold Jesus, because He holds us in His embrace.
We are told to be independent and be our own person, but it is in submission that we truly become more than who we are.
We become monsters when we lean on our understanding; it is in the vulnerability of being broken through the fear of the Lord that we are healed.
We are very good at creating consistent narratives that fit our experiences of the world, but we are not very good at interpreting the world.
People don’t want a God of Love, we want a god of affirmation.
I was talking with my daughter about something and I realized you cannot learn and be prideful at the same time. Pride creates a fool. You cannot seek your worth and learn, it is in only in realizing that you…
The bible teaches us the extraordinary truth that God desires to have a relationship with us. We need to let the beauty of this sink in. God did not come to save the healthy or beautiful, he came to save…
Have you ever felt the ache of lost love? What will the eternal heart ache be if we have rejected the One True Love? The descriptions of hell seem tame.
