The challenge is not just to believe in the eventual salvation promised to us when we die, but in the ways God personally rescues us now. Our struggles in this life are a set-up: a stage carefully set to display God’s delivering power to the rubber-necking world around us. This has always been how God proves His presence and reality to the outside world: through the contrast that occurs when frail mortals carry immortal blessing within them…
Read MoreIn our present culture, we’ve lost that basic truth: every life is made and is allowed to live by God’s sovereign authority. One of our main purposes in life is to allow God to create new life from us, through children, God willing…
Read MoreAlthough the chapter’s focus is the relationship between truth, love, and grace in marriage, one of my main takeaways was all the tangible illustrations of how marriage reflects Jesus’ relationship with the church. Below is a summary of 9 parallels I found between these relationships…
Read MoreYet in the midst of suffering’s pain, God has provided us with an anchor, a cornerstone, and a refuge named Jesus. And this Jesus not only knows suffering, but cares to know ours. And not only know our suffering, but redeem it for His glory and our blessing…
Read MoreWhat makes this book unique and worth the read is its ability to help those on both sides of the divide find their way back to God's plan for their lives and their ministry. Through anecdotes, biblical texts, and scientific studies, Lewis disarms the reader and shows them the way through the narrow path to racial reconciliation…
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