Your Life

5 But as for you, do you pursue great things for yourself? Stop pursuing! For I am about to bring disaster on everyone”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war wherever you go.”’” (James 45:5 CSB) We are taught from an early...

Walk in Love

1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. (Ephesians 5:1-2) Our path through this life can be one of frustration and dispare...

Spiritual Woo-Woo

2 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously lived according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. (Ephesians 2:1-2 CSB) Many people do not want to believe...

A Deep Need

3 Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. (Proverbs 3:3 CSB) Loyalty and faithfulness are values that were once both highly valued and pretty common. However, today they are in less supply and, as such, it seems...

Dependence upon Independence

23 The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.” (Numbers 11:22 CSB) Is the Lord’s arm too short? I think often we believe that it is. We make our way in life fully dependent...