There is shame when we are drowning in sin because we keep weakly fighting our own battles instead of turning them over to the strength of an Almighty God.
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something and enter God’s realm where everything is possible.
-Corrie Ten Boom
He is the familiar, the beloved, the One I want to cling to so that His imprint is seen in my life…making me more like Him.
To live with the desire to bring glory to God and to enjoy a relationship with Him is my utmost desire for my children.
I fear we, too, would be like Peter, to deny Him before the dawn.
I would hate to get to the end of my life and wonder what might have been different if I had trusted God more.
It’s the popular idea now that “whatever you believe is true for you, and whatever I believe is true for me.”
Jesus calls us to count the cost of discipleship because He knows what can happen in our lives when we fully commit all that we know of ourselves to all that we know of Him.
Now once again we have another school year with concerns about keeping kids safe from a pandemic and worries of kids falling behind due to virtual classrooms. How do we calm our fears?
The sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross was enough to cover ALL sin, even that dreadful one.
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