Rod Stallings

5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter … Read more

5 Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,or how bones develop in[a] the womb of a pregnant woman,so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything. (Ecclesiastes 11:5 CSB) There is much about the workings of God that we just do not know. Elsewhere in scripture it says, “His ways … Read more

8 But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things[a] that by nature are not gods. 9 But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elements?Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again? (Galatians 4:8-9 CSB) Consider, on … Read more

12 when you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. (Colossians 2:19 CSB) What does it mean when the scripture says we are to be buried and raised? In being buried we are dead to our sins. We … Read more

10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice[a] for our sins. (1 John 4:10 CSB) The next three days are about love and renewal. Love, that God sent his one and only son to die for our sins. Renewal, that God raised … Read more