Have you ever wondered why life hardly ever works out the way you expect? Why the best-laid plans too often fail? Why the law of cause and effect doesn’t seem to apply in any sort of way that makes sense? Ezekiel was probably wondered about this as well...
Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me" (Luke 9:23). It appears to us that those without God live an easy life while those who are Christian live uncomfortable...
In this hymn, the unselfishness of Christ in emptying himself for our sakes – in his incarnation, his life, and his death – is announced across all of heaven and earth: Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every...
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. – Phil 2:4 Recently I was in an all-you-can-eat Asian buffet in Vienna, when I witnessed something that caught my attention. There was a dish in the corner and a...
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. A few weeks ago I was driving to a place I had been before, but couldn’t remember how to get there. So...
He wrestles with us so we will come to the point where we will give up − not give up living, or wrestling, but give up trying to do it our way. So God wrestles with us by pain, by his word, and by his spirit. He wrestles with us to try to teach us to...
“Then Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. And He said,...
But the Son of Man goes around eating and drinking, and you say, ‘That man eats and drinks too much! He is even a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ Yet Wisdom is shown to be right by what it does (Matthew 11:16-19. C.E.V.). The religious leaders...
In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach – Acts 1:1 Do you ever wonder what Jesus is doing right now? Where is he when you need him? The words in the verse above are the ones with which Luke begins his second...
The Lord told Gideon, “With these 300 men I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites. Send all the others home.” (Judges 7:7). After several years of harsh fall out between the Amorites and the Israelites, the Israelites became so desperate...
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