How do we get into the presence of God? Christian theology teaches that God is everywhere at once (omnipresent) and deeply involved in the outworking of events in history (immanence). At the same time, many people throughout history have sought...
Psalm 1:1 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a...
It’s customary in Haiti for people to get married at the end of the calendar year. This being the case, we usually have our share of weddings to attend right around Christmas time. Sure enough, last week one of our best friends here in Haiti...
Christianity is all about new beginnings. Consider these verses from the Bible as we prepare the head into the new year: • “Remember not the former things, not consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth...
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering, 1986). The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense...
IT IS good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well...
By: Stacey Ayars I have been incredibly discouraged these past few weeks, watching politics and responses from afar as an American in a foreign land. But the greatest source of my discouragement doesn’t have anything to do with politics. It has...
Spiritual disciplines play a central role in the life of the Christian. The practice of spiritual disciplines is the place where rubber meets the road when it comes to the actual transformation of the believer as the result of faith. It is through...
Matthew 24:13 “But the one who endures until the end will be saved.” By the grace of God, I’ve never had too much trouble believing in Jesus as my Savior. Maybe it’s because I was introduced to the Gospel of Jesus at a young age, but believing in...
The Old Testament book of 1 Kings starts out with the a dying King David, and two parties fighting for succession rights to the throne of Israel. There is Adonijah’s party and Solomon’s party. Both parties believe their candidate should be king, and...