When I was in elementary school there was this game of sort, when you were walking you would try to avoid cracks on the ground. Why? Because if you stepped on a crack, you would break your mother’s back. How do kids come up with things like this, it’s troubling! When your eyes are down…
Month: July 2021
Paul wrote First Timothy to his son in the faith, Timothy. I never grow tired of Paul’s writing style, but I find his fatherly warmth and humility in this letter particularly engaging. 15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst….
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1 NIV We are in God’s family; our self-worth comes from knowing we are…
10 They say to the seers, “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. 11 Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”…