His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.
Human love is emotional. Feelings dominate a human's love landscape. We feel as though we're in love, or we don't feel as though we're in love. Hormones, sleeplessness, wory, past hurts, Mexican food-...
To be saved by grace is to be saved by him—not by an idea, doctrine, creed, or church membership, but by Jesus himself, who will sweep into heaven anyone who so much as gives him the nod.
The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it’s worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.
You meant evil against me, Joseph told his brothers, using a Hebrew verb that traces its meaning to weave or plait. You wove evil, he was saying, but God rewove it together for good. God, the Master W...
You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life:Be faithful to your spouse.Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat.Be the neighbor who acts neighborly.Be the employee who does the...
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
I keep thinking of all the people who cast despairing eyes toward the dark heavens and cry Why? And I imagine him. I imagine him listening. I picture his eyes misting and a pierced hand brushing away...
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time com...
It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny.
Just as a happy child cannot mis-hug, the sincere heart cannot mis-pray.
When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.
God gets us through stuff. Through the Red Sea onto dry ground (Ex. 14:22), through the wilderness (Deut. 29:5), through the valley of the shadow of death (Ps. 23:4), and through the deep sea (Ps. 77:...
Life pulls us down.
The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don’t grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read a...
God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.
What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day-tight compartment and this will certainly ensure your safety throughout your entire journey of life.
That’s why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of...
Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we’ve never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We...
That God saw him as such gives hope to us all.
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