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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
PARALLELS BETWEEN ISAAC AND JESUS There is no clearer picture of the Cross and the sacrifice the Father made for us in Christ than Genesis chapter 22. Notice the powerful parallels between Isaac and Christ. Isaac is one of the clearest types of Christ in the Old Testament. 1.Both fulfilled ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 22:1-14, Romans 5:8, John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 5:21
Tags: Christ, Salvation, Gospel, Cross, Isaac, Typology (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
BUMPER STICKER CONSCIENCE This is a true story. I have a pastor friend in Alabama named Bill who was driving to speak at a church in another county and he was running late. He was driving about 20 miles over the speed limit, when suddenly he remembered he had a Christian bumper sticker on his car. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 13:1-7
Tags: Conscience, Obey Authorities
Biblical Scholar, Dr. Richard Halverson, once said, “When the Greeks got the Gospel, they turned it into a philosophy; when the Romans got the Gospel, they turned it into a government. When the Europeans got the Gospel, they turned it into a culture........ and when ...read more
Scripture: Romans 1:15-16
Tags: Church, America, Gospel
DOES YOUR GOD BLEED? A little boy went up to a missionary Sunday School leader in another country. The boy said, "I like what you say about the God of the Bible but I can’t see him. But if I go to the temple I can see my God." The missionary said to the little boy, "Son, may I ask you a ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:8
Tags: Salvation, Cross, Blood Of Jesus
The story is told of a farmhand who had worked for a married couple for several years. As time went on, the couple grew older and older and they couldn't do as much they had and the farm was beginning to look a little shabby. The paint on the barn was peeling. The fences had holes in them and slats ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:14-17, Romans 8:14
Tags: Servanthood, Attitude General, Heirs Of God, Co-Heirs With Christ
Paul Washer is a powerful preacher and evangelist. He once had a seminary student send him a message. He was afraid that he was too bad to enter the ministry. He sent him a message that simply said, "I think I am too wicked to be in the ministry." And Paul Washer wrote him back and said, "You are ...read more
Scripture: Romans 3:19-26
Tags: Assurance, Confidence, Reliance On God
Un día un hombre cayo de un barco y el barco se fue sin darse cuenta. Pasó horas en el agua fría, se estaba acercado a las rocas peligrosas de la orilla, y el hombre ya estaba al punto de sumergirse para nunca más respirar cuando vio al horizonte una lancha de lujo que venía en su dirección. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:1-20
Tags: La Gracia De Dios, Seguridad De La Salvacion
Denomination: *other
Un día, un hombre rico estaba caminando por el bosque, y encontró tirado allí un carro muy viejo. El carro estaba casi destruido por el oxido. Ratas habían arrancado toda la tela y la paja de los asientos para hacer nidos pero los habían abandonado años atrás. Varios de los vidrios estaban rotos ...read more
A hotel in Galveston, Texas, that overlooks the Gulf of Mexico, faced a potential problem. The edge of the hotel hangs over the water. Before the hotel opened, someone thought, "What if someone decides to fish out of the windows?" This person then erected signs saying not to fish from the hotel ...read more
Scripture: Romans 7:7-8, Galatians 3:19-25
Tags: Rebellion, Old Testament Law, Purpose Of The Law
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Philip Yancey interviewed a young alcoholic who had formerly been an active church member, but had allowed Alcoholics Anonymous to replace the church. When questioned why, the young man responded, "Mainly I'm trying to survive, and AA helps me in that struggle far better than any church." ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:5
Tags: Accountability, Authenticity, Dependency, Self-Righteousness
Picture your ancestors as plantation farmers in the South. They have many acres of farmland and need to manage those crops. To help them accomplish this task, they go to the docks and buy a family of slaves to do the work around the farm, thus becoming the first slave owners in your family. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:12-14
Tags: Original Sin, Ask Forgiveness, Adam's Sin, Guilty As Charged
Denomination: Baptist
Watchman Nee, a Chinese evangelist, tells of a Christian he once knew in China. He was a rice farmer, and his fields lay high on a mountain. Every day he pumped water into the paddies of new rice. And every morning he returned to find that an unbelieving neighbor who lived down the hill had ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:21
Tags: Evil, Overcome, Good, Unbeliever
“Life was no cakewalk for Jesus, and he didn’t promise it would be any easier for his followers. We shouldn’t be surprised by resistance and persecution. Yet most of us play it safe. We pursue comfort. We spend ourselves to get more stuff. And we prefer to be entertained. We are all tempted by the ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:34-38
Tags: Comfort, Risk, Life In Christ, John Piper
“To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith ...read more
Tags: John Piper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Risk, Big Decisions
My pet finch Coffee runs into a serious problem once in a while. Her claws grow so long she loses the ability to control them. They get stuck in the nest and she can’t get them out. Once we found her nearly dead, hanging for hours upside down with one claw ensnared in her wicker home. Carol rescued ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:28
Tags: Surrender, Trust In God, Rest In God, Pruning, God's Care (view more) (view less)
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher Sometimes life deals us a situation so adverse, a loss so great, we feel unable to meet the challenge of facing day after day in our pain and loss. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:3-5
Tags: Adversity, Courage, Perserverance, Trials
Denomination: Charismatic
Love is one of the most powerful emotions we have. The actress Joan Crawford once said “Love is a fire but whether it warms your heart or burns your house down, you can never tell!” Love can motivate, give pleasure, hurt even destroy. It can make us do bold, even stupid things. During the 17th ...read more
Scripture: John 14:15-31, Romans 5:8
Tags: Love, Holy Spirit, Love And Obedience
I guess many here including me have in the past and if honest still do sometimes ask this question “Why God?” or “How can there be a God with all this suffering” Sometimes life hands us some tricky situations. Former President Ronald Reagan likes to tell a story which he says is true about a ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:18-31
Tags: Hope, Suffering
When our daughter was in Junior High School, she made friends with a group of girls from Olney, Texas, a community about forty minutes to the south of us. And they invited her to a function their school was having on a certain Friday night. So, I drove her over, and, when the time came, I went ...read more
Scripture: Romans 1:18-23
Tags: Creation, Doctrine Of God
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
I have read that the nearest star to our sun is called Proxima Centauri, and it’s about 4.22 light years away. As you know, a light year is not a measurement of time; it is a measurement of distance. Light is the fastest thing we know of, and a light year is how far it takes light to travel in a ...read more
Tags: Creation, Astronomy
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