How does it make you feel to think of someone besides yourself having complete power over your life? The sovereignty of God is a stumbling block to those who do not believe. For a person who does not know God, why would they want to recognize the control of an unknown? For the believer, however, …
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The Love Of God
Have you ever been truly loved by someone? Have you ever loved someone truly? “Love” is a word we throw around quite freely in our culture. Isn’t it kind of odd that we use the same word to describe a fondness or affection for any person, event, activity, hobby, food, location, movie or television show? …
What Is God Like?
I’m currently in a Bible study with a group of ladies, studying the attributes of God. We are using Behold Your God, a study written by Myrna Alexander as our guide through an exploration of the character of God. We’re only on Lesson 2, but I already love the study. A.W. Tozer also wrote a …
Psalm 119 – A Treasure Trove
One of my favorite psalms is also the longest psalm – Psalm 119. It sits practically in the center of the Bible. It’s written in true poetic style, an aphabetic acrostic. The first letters of each line follow through the alphabet, in the original Hebrew. There are eight lines for each of the 22 …
The Armor of God: Take Up The Sword!
We’ve come to the last piece of the armor of God, excluding prayer. We’ll be talking about prayer a lot in future blogs, so I’m going to “close out” our series on the armor of God with today’s topic of the sword of the Spirit. Every part of the armor is intrinsically tied to the …
The Way Of The Word 