Have you ever taken a test and been a nervous wreck until you knew that you had passed? Why do we feel the need to “measure up” to examinations? I submit that this part of our human nature is a God-given blessing and is one of the ways I know that God is real, the …
Tag: Salvation
Longing For Peace
Peace. Don’t you long for it? Are you tired of the conflict in our world? The opposite of peace is hostility, and we are seeing it up close and personal everywhere we look. Hostility between political parties. Hostility between races. Hostility between those who govern and those who are governed. Hostility between family members. Hostility …
What’s On Your Passport?
Galatians 1:3-5 – Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen. Colossians 1:13 – For He …
Are You Righteous?
Are you righteous? Proverbs 1-9 is an invitation to live wisely and follow the commands of God. These passages compare the benefit of wisdom against the foolishness and folly of rejecting God’s ways. Proverbs 10 appears to open a second section, and switches topics. For the next nine chapters, we will contrast the upright/righteous man …
What Gospel Have You Believed?
I'm following an online group that is reading through different books of the Bible this year. For the month of May, we are focused on Colossians, a letter Paul wrote while he was in prison, and that was to be circulated to several local churches. This morning, as I read the first chapter, the following …
The Way Of The Word 