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Metaphors and Parallels – Making a Statue

When you carve and chisel a statue out of stone, it takes quite a bit of work. Sometimes God’s work in our lives is like making a statue. You start with a block or slab of rock. It doesn’t really look like anything artistic, but the potential is there....

Love and Volition

God loves us. He chooses to do so. He wants us to love Him back. We also have our choice. Love must be voluntary, or it is not love. Forcing someone to love you doesn’t work. You can make someone say they love you, and you can even get them to act like it, but...

For Good in the New Year

There are some who are coming into this new year without someone they had last year. Death and disease know no holidays. But when you belong to God, all the sadness and pain will work together for your benefit, and even the benefit of others. In Romans 8:28-32, we see...

A Little Reflection

The new year is upon us! It is time for people to make promises, some they will keep and some they will not. It is nearly time for all those “haven’t seen you since last year” jokes. It is a time of reflection. What have we learned and what do we...

Plans for the New Year

Just because Christmas is over doesn’t mean you should get over the whole reason for celebrating in the first place. Christmas leads to Easter, so focus on the goodness of God and let this bring you into the New Year with some good perspective. I was about to...

Divine Apprehension and Seizure

When Jesus came to earth as a baby, He came to die on the cross to pay a price for sin that we cannot pay, and to rise again from the dead to give us life. God divinely interrupted us! Christmas leads to Easter! But sometimes we don’t follow that all the way...