In one of my devotions this morning I found myself reading Deuteronomy 4:29. Great verse, but I wanted a bigger context. So I am sharing the bigger picture with you this morning, in case you, like me, haven’t read those verses for a while. Deuteronomy 4:25:31 – After you have had children and grandchildren and … Read more
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945) Maybe it is because I found myself thinking and reading over the Beatitudes yesterday, but the quote above jumped out at me this morning. When I first read the quote, before looking at Matthew 5 again, … Read more
“When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.” … … Read more
“Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else.” … Rowland Croucher, Sunrise Sunset [1997] This last Sunday I was recruited for the opportunity to drive our church van to pick up some members of our church at various locations. I had done it before, but not with the “new” van that … Read more