Dec 19, 2014 | Devotional |
Embedded in the very heart of the message of grace is the promise of the possibility of a fresh start. The book of Lamentations leaves no doubt that the Abba of every Christian is One whose mercy and grace offers the opportunity to start over again and again....
Dec 19, 2014 | Devotional |
In The Chronicles of Narnia , C. S. Lewis wrote in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe about an occasion when Susan and Lucy ask Mr. and Mrs. Beaver to describe Aslan, the Christ-figure in the story. They ask if Aslan is a man. Mr. Beaver replies: Aslan a man?...
Dec 19, 2014 | Devotional |
He opened his eyes, but could see nothing. Something covered his face. A musty smell filled his nostrils and a damp chill reached inward to his very bones. He felt disoriented, not knowing where he was. Now he remembered. He had been sick and in bed. A high fever....
Dec 19, 2014 | Devotional |
Betsy came to me crying one day. As we began to discuss her problem, she explained that she had committed adultery three times in her life. The last time she had been caught, her husband had divorced her. She had been single again for little over a year. “I know...
Dec 19, 2014 | Devotional |
I was speaking one night in a church around the theme, “God’s Great Gift of Salvation.” I was to spend the weekend there teaching through the book of Ephesians. The particular passage from which I taught talked about how that God chose us in Christ...
Dec 19, 2014 | Devotional |
Last week I was riding back from the DMZ between South and North Korea during a ministry trip there. The demilitarized zone is the most fortified boundary on the planet. For over 50 years it has been one of the most tense places on the earth. A minefield separates two...
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