We all make excuses. As we talked about on Sunday, the chief thing you tell people when you make excuses for not accepting an invitation is that your priorities are more important than someone else’s hospitality. Excuses are a means to hide fault. Excuses before God are a way of saying that what God has
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Hope comes from stability. 2 Corinthians 4 says: 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that
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Can you train yourself to do God’s will? Psalm 119:48 says: I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. It takes little effort to do God’s will when you enjoy it. Enjoyment of following the rules isn’t always easy. There is the natural tendency
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Ever wonder why things don’t make sense? People need time to process. Matthew 13 says: 10 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11 And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them
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Did God at one time allow unbelievers into Heaven? Acts 17 says: 29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere
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Sometimes you know adversity is coming; many times you don’t. Does it make it easier to deal with if you know it’s coming, or is that just more time to worry, agonize, and plan a way out of having to deal with it? Proverbs 24:10 says: If you faint in the day of adversity, your
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How do you think Mary felt to have other people invite other people to peek in on her family right after she gave birth? Luke 2 says: 15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened,
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