The Lord’s patient love
“He passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, ‘The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving…
“He passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, ‘The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving…
“The one who was seated on the throne said to me, ‘Look, I am making everything new!’ ” (Revelation 21:5). What do you see? The crumbling ruins of an aging…
“Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed” (Genesis 2:8). Follow me to an overgrown garden.…
“On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever” (Isaiah 25:7,8). Are you longing for…
“I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing” (Romans 7:19). It's disappointing. It’s frustrating. We’ve…
“Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David” (Luke…
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every…
“Hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (Romans 5:5). At…
“You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his…