Sow with a view to righteousness, reap in accordance with kindness; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord until He comes to rain righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12 In 2010, God is calling us to remove obstacles. He wants to rain down righteousness, but…

The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior . . . Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you? Judges 6:12, 14 God’s perspective is different from our perspective. When God sent an angel to call Gideon to save Israel…

I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance . . . You have patiently suffered for me without quitting. But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far…

“For I know the plans that I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me…

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,…

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 The Genesis revelation—that the creation of this world was not a random accident but was initiated by the eternal God—reveals an origin of value, purpose, hope, and endless possibilities. God made us in His image and He has…

Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. Galatians 6:9 I’m dedicating the month of January to prayer and fasting as we seek God about the next steps for the church and our personal lives. God has…

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16 God loves you! When you know you’re loved, you are free to spend life loving and valuing others. If you catch yourself being…

On that day, when evening came, He [Jesus] said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd, they took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him. And there arose a fierce gale of wind, and…

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God. 1 John 3:1a You’ll become frustrated trying to walk in love if you don’t understand that we love because God first loved us. We can only truly walk in love as it…