Christmas Lights (Or, “How I Found Perspective Because My Son Really Had to Pee”) My son really had to pee. We’d been driving for an ...
An angel of the Lord appeared to [Zechariah], standing to the right of the altar of incense. (Luke 1:11) Every detail matters in Scripture. Here, ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Philemon GOD REVEALS HIS BLESSINGS THROUGH COMMUNITY And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Titus 3 GOD MADE YOU AN ETERNAL HEIR He saved us, not because of works done by us in ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Timothy 2 JESUS IS YOUR FIRM FOUNDATION But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Timothy 1 JESUS IS FAITHFUL THROUGH GENERATIONS I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 79 GOD SAVES YOU FOR HIS GLORY Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 6 GOD WANTS TO BE GENEROUS WITH YOU As for the rich in this present age, charge ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart From 1 Timothy 5 GOD WILL MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE YOUR REWARD The sins of some people are conspicuous, going ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 4 GOD CREATED GOOD THINGS FOR YOU For everything created by God is good, and nothing is ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 3 YOU ARE PART OF THE FOUNDATION But if I should be delayed, I have written so ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 2 JESUS IS YOUR PERFECT PATH TO GOD For there is one God, and there is one ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 78 YOUR FATHER WANTS YOU TO COME HOME Their heart was not steadfast toward Him; they were not ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Timothy 1 JESUS IS YOUR OVERFLOWING GRACE And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the ...
Scripture Notes on 1 Thessalonians 5 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24) …
TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 5, holiness, purity, salvation, sanctification
Scripture Notes on Psalm 118 Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? (Psalm 118:5-6) God takes commitment very seriously. He calls all people to …
TOPICS: commitment, courage, fear, perspective, Psalm 118, salvation, strength, victory
Scripture Notes on 1 Thessalonians 1 For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. (1 Thessalonians 1:4-5a) Have you ever been not chosen …
TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 1, choice, election, predestination, salvation, value, worth
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 2 JESUS CLEARED YOUR DEBT COMPLETELY And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with …
TOPICS: atonement, Colossians 2, cross, debt, forgiveness, justice, propitiation, salvation, sin
God’s Hope for Your Heart Ephesians 2 JESUS BLED TO BRING YOU CLOSE Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus …
TOPICS: closeness, Ephesians 2, intimacy, redemption, salvation
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Ephesians 1 GOD HAS A LAVISH REDEMPTION FOR YOU In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight… (Ephesians 1:7-8) Jesus is not …
TOPICS: Ephesians 1, forgiveness, grace, guilt, redemption, salvation, shame
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Galatians 3 JESUS TOO YOUR CURSE FROM YOU For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do …
TOPICS: blessings, curses, deliverance, Galatians 3, hope, salvation
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Galatians 1 JESUS CAME TO SET YOU FREE FROM SIN [The Lord Jesus Christ] gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. …
TOPICS: freedom, Galatians 1, redemption, salvation, sin, slavery
Scripture Notes on Psalm 99 The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! The Lord is great in Zion; He is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! (Psalm 99:1-3) Your problems …
TOPICS: deliverance, perspective, problems, Psalm 99, salvation, self-help, sufficiency
Scripture Notes on Romans 12 The Bible says that “the disciples [of Jesus] were first called ‘Christians’ at Antioch.” (Acts 11:26) The word “Christians” means both “followers of Christ” and “those identified by Christ.” The idea is that as people saw how these disciples lived their lives, it was evident …
TOPICS: Christianity, image, proof, righteousness, Romans 12, salvation, works
