There were more followers of Jesus killed in the twentieth century than in the previous nineteen centuries combined!

I’m not sure God has any coincidences. He describes Himself as more intentional than coincidence accommodates.

As your life returns to a normal routine of customary mania, the kids have homework, and bedtimes are inflexible, Battle for the Round Tower might be the diversion and desire your heart is hoping to find. 

Out of His grace God acts mercifully and the result in our lives is peace.

Grace precedes mercy and mercy precedes peace in Scripture. 

The short answer to why we pray is that our Father appreciates the discussion.

I can’t help but wonder if my angst in prayer doesn’t belie who God is while revealing a shortfall in my faith.

One verse about prayer has held my attention for a number of years. 

Sometimes I simply pray and say, “Dear God, concerning all that concerns me, what’s on your mind? In Jesus name, Amen.”

Followers of Christ are given a new heart when we are transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.

The heart is the core of us, the deepest and most thoroughgoing aspect of us.

In the same way God raised Christ from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand, so He has done to us and for us who are Believers.

We who are followers of Christ are given a new heart when we are transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.

How does it make you feel that God prefers to be called, “Father?” While He goes by lots of monikers—Yahweh, Elohim, King of kings, Lord of lords, Savior, Jehovah—He asks that we call Him, Father.

I do believe He wishes to convey that we are His family, that through Christ we are worthy to be in His presence, and that He is approachable. 

How does it make you feel that God prefers to be called, “Father?” While He goes by lots of monikers—Yahweh, Elohim, King of kings, Lord of lords, Savior, Jehovah—He asks that we call Him, Father.

By definition this means, Christ is adequate to get us into heaven; enough to get us by in life, and able to do through us those things required of us. 

I don’t think so! 

The second is the God we have been discussing. He does not serve us.

Jesus Christ does not love me only enough to adequately satisfy my need to be loved. He loves me beyond my ability to comprehend. He loves me more than enough to fill up the infinite capacity of God, which is beyond knowledge

I was thinking about that word—“sufficient”—this morning while I was riding my bicycle along the river trail. Just to be certain “sufficient” meant what I thought it meant, I looked it up.