1 Peter 1:17 “You call on a Father who judges each person’s work without favoring one over another. So live your lives as strangers here. Have the highest respect for God.”[NIRV] Are you a stranger? In Peter’s first letter to the church, believers are referred to as aliens, the exiled, foreigners, Continue Reading…
Philippians 2:12-13 “continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.” I recently watched the movie, Prince Caspian, second in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Aside from the overall quality Continue Reading…
2 Corinthians 12:9-10: “…Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecution, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” The Continue Reading…
Jeremiah 17:7-8 “the man who trusts in the Lord …does not fear when heat comes.” In 2001, our family visited Yellowstone National Park. We were stunned to learn that in 1988 almost 800,000 acres of the park—36%—had been ravaged by a forest fire. No tree was affected more than the Continue Reading…