Archive for June 1998
Open Your Mouth Wide
“I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it” (Psalm 81:10). When I think of this invitation to “open your mouth wide,” I picture a young bird eagerly responding to its mother’s feeding in the nest. That imagery was impressed…
Read MoreA Place to Belong
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as…
Read MoreSalt and Light
I like eggs sprinkled with sodium chloride, do you? It sounds much more tasty to ask “Would you like salt on your eggs?” I’d say, “Yes, and some pepper too!” David Johnson comments on the chemistry of salt: Sodium is an extremely active element found naturally only in combined form; it always links itself to…
Read MoreTrusting Christ As Your Life
“As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.” (Col 2:6). In Dr. Charles Solomon’s book Handbook to Happiness, we see the parallel between salvation by grace and abundant living by grace: “We entered into salvation by grace through faith; we enter into identification (with Christ) in precisely the same manner.…
Read MoreDealing With Loss (Part 2)
Sometimes God uses bereavement to bring us to the end of our own resources. When a loved one dies or we grieve a different kind of loss, we discover our need for support and comfort. God designed us to experience abundant life by having our ultimate needs met in Him. As Augustine said, “You have…
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