Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). Think you aren’t strong enough? Think you aren’t smart enough? Think you … Continue reading
Beloved, if you knew the week I just had and the one I’m about to have, you would understand why I’m “revisiting” these One-a-Days from last year. Strangely, God’s Word has not gotten any less powerful or any less timely. … Continue reading
“You know, a couple of weeks ago I really hated your guts!” Lovely. Several questions hit my mind all at once. “Why did this person hate my guts a couple of weeks ago?” “Why does this person no longer hate … Continue reading
…neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:39). Of course there’s nothing in the physical world that can … Continue reading
…neither the present nor the future… (Romans 8:38c). Neither the present… when I’m distracted and frazzled and busy and sad and lonely and frightened and desperate and insecure and so completely overwhelmed that I barely have time to read … Continue reading
…neither angels nor demons… (Romans 8:38b) I would love to see into the spiritual world. When I read of Daniel’s visions, or John the Apostle’s, I get hungry, wondering what it will really be like to see into that world. … Continue reading
For I am convinced that neither death nor life… (Romans 8:38a) If I get squished by a narcoleptic cement truck driver on my way to work, I will still belong to God. In fact, I will immediately be ushered into … Continue reading
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us (Romans 8:37). Some days I feel like a conqueror; some days I feel like the conquered. The “things” that Paul mentions—persecution, famine, peril, sword, and … Continue reading
I teach eighth graders—perhaps the biggest bunch of walking insecurities ever to grace the planet. So concerned with the approval of others, so lost as to their own identity. I am, of course, many years and many miles removed from … Continue reading
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? (Romans 8:35) In answer to the above question: No one. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. … Continue reading