A New Lease on Life

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature, the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." 2 Corinthians 5:17

Who Do You Say I Am?

Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you say I am?"  As we celebrate Christmas tomorrow this question should be at the center of our celebration.  

                       

A Season for Everything

Where There is Hope

"Where there is hope there's a way."

These words came to me yesterday when I saw a photo of a rainbow in an on-line devotional I was reading.  This is a photo I took in 2012 while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard.  For 10 minutes everyone outside the restaurant we'd just left stood in silent awe. . . .  

Going to God

"Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you."  -1 Peter 5:7

Whom Do You Serve?

"He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters." 

-Psalm 23:2

Knowing Jesus

"I must know Jesus Christ as Saviour before His teaching has any meaning for me other than that of an ideal which leads to despair." --Oswald Chambers

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Do Not Withhold Love

In today's Our Daily Bread, Amy Peterson told about a daily practice she started with her children at bedtime.  They light a candle, and asking God to light their way, they get out their journals and draw or write answers to these two questions. . . 

Joy of the Lord

"Let your gentleness be evident to all.  The Lord is near."  -Philippians 4:5

Help for the Helpless

"You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts."  2 Corinthians 3:3

Gift of Forgiveness

In Our Daily Bread David Roper uses the imagery of plowing a field for the first time--how it churns up the larger stones and then each pass of the plow over the same ground reveals more and more rocks.  One hundred years ago our property had been farmland.  It has become wooded in the ensuing years, but the piles of rocks along the perimeter where the farmer threw the rocks he'd plowed up are still there. . . .

Abandoned To God

"When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time."  
-Oswald Chambers

Promises Kept

"He has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires."  -2 Peter 1:4