Salvation

Broken Jar of Clay

On Quora.com, a man posted his mother’s story. She faced every obstacle one can imagine, from a father who refused to educate her, to bad vision in one eye. At one point her father burned a ...

To share is to be fair. What that means is that greed hurts those in need. When we are blessed, we are expected to spread some of our blessings around. We are to feed the hungry, house the homeless, ...

Like As Unto God

America is a land of undeniable beauty. Even our songs boast of our shining seas, our majestic mountains, and our spacious skies. Every state has something that makes it special, from the mountains ...

The Bay of Recompense

Ships sail the world over, from the Great Lakes to the beautiful Mediterranean, and every ocean in between. Once they leave their ports of call, there is no safe place in the wide world until they ...

In His Perfect Image

There are times when copying someone else’s work is not acceptable, and other times when we want to make copies, and good ones, ...

Ripped from God’s Heart

Rip a Band-Aid from a wound, and we scream in pain. Rip a child from our heart, and it hurts even worse. Ask these ...

Refusing to Wait on God

We are always waiting on something. There are red lights, check-out lines, and microwaves counting down the seconds until our lunch is ready. There are other things we’re advised to wait on: to get ...

The Seven Banishments of God

There are some guests so unwelcome we refuse to allow them to hang around: Uncle Charley and the stogie he refuses to smoke outside; Cousin Cathleen and her wall-drawing little ones. A ...

I Am The Christ

Pull out a credit card. Yes, a credit card. Look in the bottom corner, and we’ll see our name boldly embossed in the plastic. When we’re using our plastic, we want people to know who we are. We ...

Steel Spine Christianity

Have you ever seen someone who’s had a broken back, and they’ve had to have multiple vertebrae fused? Maybe they’ve got a steel rod down their spine, and they can no longer twist and turn to ...

God’s Family Ties

To begin the message, the phrase “Blood is thicker than water” is indelibly etched into modern culture. What it says is that those who are related to us are more important than those who are ...

God’s Seven Words

In teaching a child, educators are told to rephrase, rephrase, and rephrase. If a child doesn’t get it the first time we say it, find a different way to get the message ...

Becoming God’s Thoroughbred

Horses are among the most beautiful of God’s creatures. We envision them standing in the wind, mane and tail blowing free; or running on the beach, with water splashing at each footstep. Who would ...

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