Faithful Writers

You do not need your son or daughter to win the admiration of the church crowd. You need them to feel known, safe, and guided. Stop feeling the weight of raising the ideal child. Instead, journey with them through mistake, doubt, and everything else, pointing back to Jesus.

Then, take your accompanying high heel and kick him down the steps, knowing perfectly well that man ain’t getting to heaven any other way, but the blood of Jesus.

‎His Word is my foundation, ‎Strong and deep, My heart anchored, ‎In eternal sleep.

Connected to this point is the huge misunderstanding that God made a separate covenant for the salvation of the Gentiles. I’m sorry to say this, but NO SUCH covenant exists

These genealogies stand as an objective and enduring testimony to God’s faithfulness to preserve His chosen nation, Israel. And the great news is that you too, can become one with Israel through faith in the Messiah.

I am adamant in my insistence that God for His own good reasons and purposes has chosen to save ONLY ONE group of people on this planet, and that group is the Jews and those Gentiles who join themselves to the Jews by accepting His new covenant through the shed blood of Messiah Yeshua.

Now, you might be saying, “If you know the tips, how do you fall to the bottom of the well?” Because it’s not magic. We’re all living real life here and — for whatever reasons — I’m sometimes tripped up along the way.

But, as time passed, men from the line of Seth began to lust after the beautiful women from the line of Cain, resulting in a polluted race that the Lord could not and would not tolerate. This resulted in God sending the great flood to destroy this unholy offspring.

We all have friends who operate between the hours of 8 and 5. But will they be there on moving weekend? Or drive to pick you up if your car breaks down? Are they available 24/7? This is why so many people feel lonely at church. Like-minded people surround them. But none of them are friends.

Since so many like to cherry-pick their form of Christianity these days to believe in, let's reconcile this. They hate the God of the Old Testament (God of Wrath) and choose to follow the God of the New Testament (God of Love).

Notice something interesting in this scathing indictment the Lord has just pronounced. He holds man responsible. He never blames Satan for this sorry state of affairs.

I think more so, my mind should stay fixed on my Savior, the Author and Finisher of my Faith. The beauty of Who He is far more captivating than any of my five senses have beheld, albeit they’ve beheld much.

The Bible isn’t dead ink. Not because the pages themselves are like a magic potion. But because they have the ability to inspire the reader to living a wise life. There are lines in Scripture I’ve read a hundred times. But then one day, in the middle of a mess, or a moment of quiet, or a hard conversation with God, I’ll read that same line again — and it lands different. It breathes.

How I went from begging for answers to noticing the grace that was there all along

However, the four dimensions are only characteristics that govern OUR universe. The sphere of heaven, where God resides, operates under a totally different set of physical laws and principles…

‎Some people are toxic, some are not meant for you. You need to do a deliberate act of sieving the number of people on your friend list, contact list, et cetra.

Maybe I’m a super weirdo, but in my late teens and early twenties, I was obsessed with why modernity developed ONLY in the West — in Europe and North America and nowhere else. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise…

Thinking that just walking down an aisle and mouthing some canned salvation prayer is the be all and end all of your faith walk is I believe a gross error. It is just the beginning. God has great plans for your life but YOU HAVE TO TAKE ACTION in order to translate those plans into reality.

Dazed and confused, she senses a calm presence approaching her. My child, “What if?” A weak smile crosses her face as the Lord gently pulls the tip of the knife from her blood-stained chest. The self-inflicted wound remains. “What if I heal you?”

When the Psalmist wrote, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,” he didn’t say that they’re hard to find, specific steps.” There’s wiggle room. There’s grace. There’s space to learn as you go. God doesn’t yank the rug out every time you hesitate.

Notice that in both cases, the ark is the divine means of escape God has prepared for His chosen people. In Genesis, mankind was to be destroyed by a flood of water.

Turns out, the most unexpected place to grow your faith is on a classroom floor with a glue stick in one hand and someone’s lost tooth in the other.

Discipline is needed in child upbringing, but not abuse - they are 2 separate waters that do not mix.

Tear rolls down a cheek in close-up of an eye with long eyelashes. The grayscale image conveys a mood of sadness or emotion.