When Israel was a child, I loved him,and out of Egypt I called my son.The more they were called,the more they went away;they kept sacrificing to the Baalsand burning offerings to idols.Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;I took them up by their arms,but they did not know that I healed them.I led [...]
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Our Merciful God Loves His Children
Posted in God, gospel, love, Love Your Neighbor, mercy on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Shared Words
Posted in counsel, encouragement, love, Love Your Neighbor, Proverbs, wisdom, tagged comfort, counsel, love, support, weak, wisdom on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. – Proverbs 15:22 (NIV) Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. – Proverbs 11:14 (KJV) Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. – Romans 14:1 (NIV) We who are [...]
Love is Worthwhile
Posted in Christianity, compassion, love, Love Your Neighbor, tagged heart, love, relationship on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“A life has value according to how much love it has.”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Where is the love? It is a common question. It is the type of question that causes the common Christian to ponder whether he or she has truly loved like Christ. Then, after considering the question further, it is the type of [...]
From Eden to Egypt- Day 50
Posted in Bible, blessing, brothers, family, forgiveness, From Eden to Egypt, Genesis, love, tagged blessing, faith, giving, grace, heart, love, mercy, relationship, restoration on April 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families. – [...]
>From Eden to Egypt Day 37
Posted in family, From Eden to Egypt, Genesis, love on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
> So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. – Genesis 29:20 (NIV) Jacob & Laban as depicted by Restout Jacob was willing to work with his uncle Laban in return for his younger daughter Rachel. Laban appears to [...]
From Eden to Egypt- Day 9
Posted in blessed, creation, From Eden to Egypt, Genesis, God, love on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. – Genesis 3:20 (NASB) She was called Eve. She was the “mother of all the living.” I find it interesting that the man “named” his wife according to the New International Version. This occurs in chapter 3, but let [...]
Paid in Full
Posted in assurance, blessings, Christianity, deliverance, heaven, Jesus, love, messiah, redemption, sacrifice, salvation, tagged Calvary, Christ, faith, gospel, grace, Jesus, love, power, redemption, salvation, theology, work on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.- Romans 5:19 (NIV) For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all [...]
Loved and Loving
Posted in Christian, gospel, grace, love, Love Your Neighbor, Psalms, salvation on October 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love. -C.S. Lewis We love because he first loved us.- 1 John 4:19 (NIV) He loved us. He loved us first. He loved us enough to reach out to us and extend love towards us. He loved us so much that He gave [...]
People and Procedures
Posted in church, faith, love, ministry, relationships, works, youth on September 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
”Need I remind you of the church motto?. . .You know the church rules. . .”- The Fighting Temptations At times, we can have those who seem to guard the church’s rules and regulations with much more zeal than they advance the Good News. They know what everyone else shouldn’t do and where it is [...]
Potluck of Praise
Posted in Christian, church, expressions, fellowship, food, love, praise, unity on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.-Acts 2:46-47 Christian churches are known for their [...]
