Lately, on social media I have seen that people are posting their word of the year for 2021. It has been wonderful to see the encouraging, uplifting words that people have chosen. The only word that comes to my mind is endurance. I feel like that is much...
What is salvation and why are we saved? Many believers mistakenly think salvation is an event. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and confess this truth with my mouth. I am saved from the second death, God’s judgment of wrath for my...
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the...
The only constant in life is change. In the spirit of this saying, I would posit that the love of God is the only other constant. The Bible teaches us that God and His love are never-changing and eternal, that there’s nothing we could do to change how He feels about...
Although I went to church my entire life, I did not become a follower of Christ until I was in my late 30’s. In my younger years, I was a Christian in name only. When I finally understood God’s holiness and my sinfulness, and thus my complete and utter dependence on...