God is in control, personal, and faithful. Always.
Happy Birthday, Love God
God is in control, personal, and faithful. Always.
Stained Glass: oddly shaped bits of color arranged to form a picture. Life: oddly shaped bits of experience arranged to form a character.
The experiences and parables of walking by faith, trusting the One who created, maintains, coordinates, and oversees all – even the tiniest details.
God is in control, personal, and faithful. Always.
James MacDonald (Walk in the Word) is currently doing a series on Revelation, today’s scripture is Rev 20. His presentation of the opening of the books struck me: If a name is not found in the Book of Life, it will be looked up in the other books, where every deed, thought, word, and rejected opportunity are listed. It’s the scales or the cross, the book of deeds or the Book of Life.
There are no accusations, no measuring rods, no bullwhips or bullhorns – just empathy, encouragement, a few suggestions of where others found help – one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread – church, online. Is your church anything like what these people are finding online? Shouldn’t it be?
More constant than the beauty of Heaven or the horror of Hell is the fact that the Divine Creator knows my language and chooses to use it to communicate with me. He has been careful to remind me that He knows me, more intimately than any parent, sibling, friend, spouse or child ever could.
At 99 years of age, Abram (meaning ‘exalted father’) was renamed Abraham (meaning ‘father of nations’), and his wife Sarai was renamed Sarah – both of these changes made by God. God repeated His promise, clarifying that the covenant people would be born of Sarah (Isaac), and laid out the terms of Abraham’s obedience (and …