Take Your Stand

15 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:1-2 CSB) When … Read more

Previous Things

4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things[a] have passed away. (Revelations 21:4 CSB) If we were, today, to take everything we did in the light of eternity, how would we change what we do? This … Read more

Intent

“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done…” – Genesis 50:20 How we perceive a situation is typically how we determine the motive, or reason why it is happening. When we assume ill, then we expect an ill outcome. When we assume good, then we … Read more

Renewed

16 Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16 CSB) It seems the world just wants to tear us down. Life transpires to make itself harder and harder. However, we do not give up, but we strive … Read more

The Rock

18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. (Matthew 16:18 CSB) God build the church upon Peter and he can do similar works with us…if we will but let him. Even Peter denied Christ … Read more