Posted in faithfulness on Apr 30th, 2015
My hero is amazing.
Here’s a description of this man that I read this morning:
“He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness.”
These words from John 1:14 are, of course, describing the Messiah, the Lamb of God, the Good Shepherd, the King, the Savior, the Lion.
There are countless descriptions of Jesus Christ offered in […]
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Posted in faithfulness on Apr 24th, 2015
My hair has a bit more gray than it used to.
But my faith should also have more green than it used to.
You’ve perhaps heard that the best grapes come from the oldest vines.
I like that idea.
So does God.
Check out what Psalm 92:14 says about faithful believers:
“Even in old age they will […]
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Posted in faithfulness on Nov 12th, 2014
I need to pray for more wisdom and humility so that I’ll walk like Enoch.
Here are the messages from Hebrews 11:5 and Genesis 5:23-24 that explain why:
“It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying — ‘he disappeared, because God took him’ (Genesis 5:24). […]
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Posted in faithfulness on Sep 5th, 2014
The Old West wasn’t tamed by farmers who quit work at lunchtime.
Instead, there was feeding animals at sunrise, planting seed in the morning, plowing and mending fences in the early afternoon and repairing barns and checking on animals in the late afternoon until it was dark.
Though the order might have varied from farmer to farmer, […]
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Posted in faithfulness on Jul 25th, 2014
There is no place for coasting when it comes to faithfulness.
We can’t push the accelerator to the floorboard of faith in order to cruise down the highway of holiness and then take our eyes off the road and foot off the gas AND expect to roll right into glory.
We’ve got to keep pressing into spiritual […]
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