faith
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The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed and all of them from the greatest to the least put on sackcloth – Jonah 3:5 Nineveh’s story begins not with its sin but with God’s mercy already in motion. Jonah confronts a violent city with the word of the Lord. He did not preach comfort or…
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We’re in the moments leading to Jesus’ arrest, beloved. The tension is building, and Jesus knows what’s coming. Yet, he goes out to the Mount of Olives, a familiar place of prayer, to prepare himself. “Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.” (Luke 22:39, NIV) Beloved, we…
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Wisdom is born when we realize that our time is limited and therefore precious.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? – Romans 8:35 The human experience is often marked by trials that shake our very foundation, leading to the crushing question: Has God abandoned me? We face moments of acute distress, whether…
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The lesson here is the realization that our time is short, and we need to stop wasting the precious, limited moments we’ve been given on things that won’t matter five minutes after we leave this earth.
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“And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.” – Matthew 2:12 This single verse, concerning the Magi after their encounter with the Christ child, offers a profound lesson on divine guidance and courageous disobedience. The Magi, having traveled a great distance, fulfilled their…
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. – Hebrews 11:1 (ESV) Hebrews 11:1 provides us with the most concise and actionable definition of faith in all of Scripture: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” This verse tells…
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Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. – Hebrews 13-2
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We often cling to past methods, past glories, or past seasons of blessing, mistakenly believing that the future must look exactly like the past for God to be present.
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