The apostle Paul exhorts us to “bear one another’s burdens” (Galatians 6:2) so as to fulfill Christ’s commandment to love one another. The Greek word Paul used for “bear” literally means “to sustain, bear, or hold up against a thing,” much as a person would tie a stake to a tomato plant to sustain it from the weight it carries. …
“Blindness and sight” is a metaphor Jesus often used to describe the spiritual condition of our hearts. He came so that “those who do not see will see” (John 9:39), healing the spiritual blindness of all who receive Him as Savior so that those who once were “blind” can now see. Our circumstances might remain exactly the same, but our …
Jesus tells us that one of the paradoxes of His gospel is that when we make the decision to selflessly sacrifice by giving up our wants and desires for His sake, He restores to us His life-giving provisions in abundant measure! Christine was devastated when she found out she was pregnant. Fear “spoke loudly” to her. …“What will your mom …
The Cross of Jesus not only reconciles sinners to God, it provides the means by which we can be reconciled to each other: parents to children, and more significantly, mothers to babies they had initially wanted to abort. Satan’s ploy is always to divide God’s children, but Jesus’ reconciliatory sacrifice powerfully paves the way for life to flow and life-giving …
Conventional wisdom says that “seeing is believing,” predicating our belief on the tangible, physical realities which we can perceive through our senses. In God’s economy, however, believing first in Him, through faith, is what opens our eyes to seeing our circumstances in a new light and helps us to bring our decisions in alignment with His will. Kendall had recently …
