There once were two sons, who lived a life of abundance. Their father had considerable wealth. The younger son was ungrateful, rude, impatient, selfish, wasteful, and foolish, in his unknowing of who his father truly was. The other son who was older, was ungrateful, angry, prideful, selfish, and resentful, in his unknowing of who his …
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“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak” (Isaiah 40:28-29 NIV). There are no …
4 Now when He was through speaking, He said unto Simon, “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draft.”5 And Simon answering said unto Him, “Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at Thy word I will let down the net.”6 And when they had …
“To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of …
It could be said, “What we see, is not always what matters.” Appearances can be deceiving and if the truth be laid bare about human tendencies, we are often fooled because of what we see. In a larger sense, we often gauge the person not by the reality of who they are but by their …
The world surrounding us clamors and longs for peace. The soul within us aches for peace in the midst of life events and disruptions, losses, unexpected circumstances, and relational upheavals or disappointments. Yet, treaties and prospects of peace are fleeting as the true desires of nations and leaders often are manipulative and less than honest …
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At the center of all that is living is the One who created and gives all there is to life. It is a gift of grace from our Creator to be given a life to live. It is a gift of grace to be given a new life as a follower of Christ; forgiven and …
“But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they …
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord” (Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV). Bread is critical to life. It has been …
“Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.’ The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, …