Psalm 139:13-16 13 For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;     your works are wonderful,     I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you     when I was...

Mark 8:35 - For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. Living in this broken world, people know defeat all too well. Everyone has experienced a relationship where someone let them down, or a...

Exodus 10:1 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” Chances are you’ve made your share of nighttime kitchen raids. You know you won’t sleep again until you answer the call of...

What does it mean to have a “spiritual awakening”? For some, the change is that God is not some distant figure on a mountain or another planet but a presence with, within and among us wherever we are, guiding, leading, encouraging and confronting us to move on toward...

Look long enough into the eyes of our Savior and, there too, you will see a bride. Dressed in fine linen. Clothed in pure grace. From the wreath in her hair to the clouds at her feet, she is royal. She is the princess. She is the bride. His bride. Walking toward him,...

Is Jesus the only way for a person to get into Heaven? Yes. The Bible clearly identifies Jesus as the only means of salvation - John 14:6 - Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Believing in Jesus and...

She lights a lamp and sweeps her floors, getting into every possible nook and cranny where a silver coin could have fallen and be difficult to see. Nothing. Next she shakes out her bedding, every cover, every blanket. Nothing. She checks the pocket in her Sabbath...