Suffering often leads to doubting God’s love for us. We go to Jesus (prayer, Word, the body) for help, and we practice long-term faithfulness, trusting that we belong to Him…
John is a humble servant by rejoicing in his diminishing role and pointing to Jesus. This is our life’s mission.
Jesus’ incarnation was aided by abetted his adoptive dad Joseph, a relatively obscure man in the line of David who trusted God and obeyed Him in a critical time. We…
In Mary we see extraordinary faith in the most ordinary of persons. God is the grace-giving actor in this passage, but Mary’s response of childlike faith should be a model…
The Christian life is foundationally what God has done for us in spite of what we deserve. Are we doing the good works he has prepared in advance for us…
The Proverbs 31 woman/wife is actually the archetype of the wise person who fears the Lord. May we strive to embody these virtues and have no fear of the future
Wisdom grows as we understand our smallness and God’s vastness, and trust His Word.
Thirty wise sayings of Proverbs 22-24 give us practical and wise challenges for trusting in and fearing God.
The path of righteousness involves anger without sin, practicing hospitality, and loving the poor. But each step on that path we owe to our sovereign God who loves us.
The ways we work, accrue wealth and use our words reveal righteousness or wickedness, wisdom or foolishness. Yet no matter how well we apply these themes to our lives, we…