There is a lot of hope in today’s verse! We read that God took the initiative to save us before we even deserved it…as if we could…by sending Jesus. Jesus sacrificed His life for our salvation before we even knew we needed saving. It echoes so loudly of Jesus’ prayer from the cross for God…

Here is a simple thought for your Saturday: God is Love. I remember my brother and I really liking the Foreigner song from 1984, “I Want to Know What Love Is.” I came to know later that love isn’t a principle or precept, it’s a person: GOD! And God came to us in Jesus so…

Today’s verse is one I frequently use in funeral services. The graphic for the verse leaves off the very last part which is where Jesus asked Martha, “Do you believe this?” That always gets me. Have you heard that the longest distance is the 18″ that separates a person’s head and the heart? My take…

This verse is one that helps us find the delicious center of a Jesus sandwich. Jesus was born in Bethlehem which translated means, House of Bread. Jesus served the Passover Meal to the disciples just before going to the cross (where we get our service of Holy Communion) and declared the bread was His body…

Today’s verse is one we might know but often live in reverse. Jesus said the heart follows what it treasures as opposed to our treasure following the heart. Why is that important? It’s because the heart is deceitful above all else and we can’t understand it (Jeremiah 17:9). We get tempted to treasure things that…

Yesterday we looked at how light overcomes darkness every single time. Today’s verse gives us an exciting reminder that our victory comes in Jesus. Jesus referred to Himself as the Light of the World (John 8:12). John would later write in one of his letters that since Jesus is light, there can be no darkness…

I love how this verse speaks so definitively about spirituality and physics. Light and dark cannot coexist, so wherever light is, darkness can never extinguish. I love how some other translations (like the KJV and NKJV) indicate that the darkness cannot even comprehend its inability to overcome the light. Isn’t that something we see so…

Today begins the season of Advent…a time of preparation for the glory of Christmas. This is the time when we countdown with great excitement and anticipation of the celebration of the birth of our Savior. That isn’t the only thing we are called to do during this season, though. Advent is also a time when…

Today’s verse points to one of the most beautiful passages of Scripture, known as the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2:5-11. It starts with the exhortation for us to have the same mind as Jesus, or to approach the world with the same heart for others. In Jesus, God set aside His eternal glory and took…