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“God is my Co-Pilot” says a bumper sticker. Uh-Oh! God is God! Jesus Christ IS Lord. Today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11) Christians If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans…

“Not my fault” is heard in endless variations. “He hit me first.” “If she hadn’t done x, I wouldn’t have…” “It wasn’t me.” “It was her fault.” “It was his fault.” “If only I had had (this resource, this experience, this teacher, these parents)…” “If the car owner had locked his car…” Blaming rather than…

Have you ever prayed for a pony and received the entire ranch? (So to speak!) I recently saw a potential answer to prayer that was so above and beyond, I wondered if it could possibly be true. But we are told repeatedly that nothing is impossible for God. And looking at them Jesus said to them,…

Harry Durgin; Kilauea eruption; September 29, 2021; Mauna Loa strip road. When Barnabas arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord. (Acts 11:23) When we walk into a room, into a situation, or experience something ourselves, are we apt to…

MegRichardsPhotography.com Iam self-critical, and the verses telling us to examine ourselves always result in my seeing my sins. (Which I need, of course, but God blesses me also.) I do regularly list God’s blessings to me. But I don’t regularly examine my life to see God’s myriad grace in my life (apart from His awesome…

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,…