Have you given up something for Lent? Pastor John Petersen suggests that perhaps you should give up Guilt for Lent. Put your guilt on Jesus, he has taken your sins to the cross in your place.
The passages that I personally find most comforting in the Bible are passages that make me look weak and small and that make God look great and powerful.
God's heart doesn't change. He wants you to be his child. He wants you to have faith in him. And he wants to see you in heaven someday.
We're like little birds sometimes inconsequential to others, but very very precious to God.
Are you familiar with the domino effect? The devil likes to topple our lives, but God also set things in motion, a cascade of events to save you!
You may not be afraid of monsters under the bed, but I dare say there are some things you are afraid of. Have confidence that God has protected you and he continues to protect you.
Today Pastor Petersen takes us into the Psalms where we find comfort that despite how the world looks and feels, we can trust that God takes us by the hand and leads us to glory.
The bill of our guilt, the debt of our sin, it has been paid for. It has been accomplished 100% by our Savior Jesus. There's nothing more that we need to do. After all, can Jesus go back now and commit some sort of sin and not earn righteousness? No! It's an accomplished fact. He already earned that righteousness. It's free and it's coming to all who believe in him.
When you're playing four square you have three opponents to keep an eye on. Any one of them can be against you, any one of them can get you out.
How old do you think you were when you could have explained to me what it meant to be a human being?
Christ wants us to live in His word. To make it such a regular part of our life that that's where we can be found.
Sometimes, life gives us burdens that slowly wear us down and cause us to crumble and to fall apart. What's a person supposed to do in times like that?
