Tag Archives: Bible
Straining at Your Oars
He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Mark 6:48 It is good for us to know that Jesus sees our labor and effort. He perceives all that concerns us, and he knows the issues that matter most. Attentive and keenly aware he comes. It is quite common for [...]
Depictions of an Empty Tomb
It’s approaching Easter Sunday, and so I’m foregoing the usual routine and directing my attention to photos/artwork depicting the empty tomb of Jesus Christ. Take a look, pause and even pray–if that is something you want to do. “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God [...]
Evil Inside Us
“More than anything else, a person’s mind is evil and cannot be healed. Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9, NCV “I’m really not as bad as you think I am. Actually, I am much worse.” The Bible in its tremendous insight, never ever makes humans to be wonderful creatures. I think we would all volunteer [...]
Four Truths from God
I want to share four truths that I heard in church last Sunday. They are four truths that our youth minister heard a Christian speaker share at a conference earlier last week. But these four truths weren’t new with that speaker either. Their source is God and they are told to us in His Word. For [...]
Exuberantly Alive with Life
“The glory of God is a person fully alive” said the church father Irenaeus. Psalm 18 shows David exuberantly alive with the life of God. It is filled with rich imagery of God’s deliverance and blessing upon people the people of faith. I want Psalm 18 to become my story! I want it in my [...]
Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
“I love you. God, I miss you. And I forgive you.” ~from the film Remember Me “When I saw that scene in the movie, I stumbled out of bed and fell to the ground as my whole body trembled in anguish and agony — and I started and screaming like a wild, wounded animal. It [...]
Growth in the Troughs of Life
This post has been floating around in my head for almost two weeks now, and I had fully intended to post it here at Broken Believers last weekend, but just didn’t get it done. In retrospect, learning of the great trough our dear brother Bryan is going through, I realize that either I should have [...]
Making Some Sense of a Deep and Kind Love: 1 Corinthians 13
Love. In the face of doctrine, creeds and faith systems…isn’t the important thing that we just love? Isn’t love the superior truth we should be after? _______________ 1 Corinthians 13, “The Message” The Way of Love ” 1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking [...]
Crane Song and Common Grace
“And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe. The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command.” [...]