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Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. (Matthew 6:33) That is a command! The Bible mentions a number of good things when we seek Him first: We find Him (Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:13), We’re glad (1 Chronicles 16:10), We rejoice (Psalm 40:16), We don’t worry (Matthew 6:33-34). How? We’re humans, so we need to learn…

God’s love for His children* knows no bounds; His love for His children is infinite and eternal. He has a plan to make us into the image of His Son, glorifying us, and He is working in us to that end. (Philippians 1:6, 2:13). And there’s more! We also experience special times, special instances of His…

Winston Churchill gave a famous commencement speech: “Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.” Jesus told us that also: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7) The verb tenses are present, active, imperatives. So what Jesus said was: Keep…

My dad was in the Navy in WWII, and was on the beach at Iwo Jima on D-Day. He and his men completed their mission, came under machine gun fire, their landing craft was disabled, and it took more than a day for them to make their way to a ship and then to get…

MegRichardsPhotography.com Acartoon character was turned away at the pearly gate. “But it wasn’t gluttony, it was just the munchies.” We may excuse our sin. It’s “just munchies,” rather than a heart issue. We need to call sin, “Sin!” We need to name it. We might “solve” the apparent problem without having a change of heart,…

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! (Philippians 4:4) We are commanded to rejoice in the Lord. To rejoice in the Lord always. We are to keep on rejoicing. (1 Peter 4:13) Christmas is a great day to rejoice, a day to celebrate good news of great joy. (Luke 2:10) Today we rejoice about unimaginable, eternal, stupendous…

Good news is meaningful and welcome when we’re suffering from bad news. The last two weeks, this blog talked about the trouble in the world (What is Happening in the World?) and about death (Sudden Death). Sin abounds. Rejection of the Almighty, Creator God is rampant. Eternal condemnation awaits those who spurn God’s Savior. Next…

Avery fit marathoner died of a heart attack. A newly-wed man died in his sleep. A parking control officer was shot in his head from behind. And many more suddenly died. Wham! And each woke up in eternity, some to eternal life, some to a resurrection of condemnation. Some to glorious good news, some to…

Harry Durgin; The moon above Mauna Loa erupting taken from Pu’uhuluhulu at 7:50pm Afootball announcer asked: “What is happening in the world?” The question followed the photo of a player’s cleats recognizing a recent tragedy. Then back to football, of course, with the question asked but not answered. Secular fingers point at all the usual…

Harry Durgin The Sunday before Thanksgiving I told you that I was going to list why we are able to do as God commands: Give thanks in everything. Sometimes, of course, it is easy to give Him thanks. Other times, though, the situation is so horrible, we can’t imagine doing so. For Christians, here is what we…