So it all comes down to not trusting ourselves anymore. If we are people of faith, then we will trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and find firm footing. Our feet will not slip because we are planted on a firm surface. Jesus equated it to building a house: “Therefore...
The only belief system that has an “Open Season†sign on it is Christianity. Soon there will be pictures of Christians and Bibles with instructions to “Shoot On Sight.†Of course I am not talking literally but figuratively. The weapons of our foes are designed...
To hope and trust in God means doing so in His power and providence; not in our might and motives. Again, this may seem as a simple truth, and it is, but always remember that simple rarely equates to easy. We are hard-wired to do things on our own. But when we are...
Last week I wrote we needed to unpack a quote from our old friend Matthew Henry in his quote on Psalm 46. Here’s the quote: This psalm encourages to hope and trust in God; in His power and providence, and His gracious presence with His church in the worst of times....
When I was a young boy and even in my teenage years growing up in Northern California near the Pacific Ocean, one of my favorite things to do when we went to Bodega Bay was to go out on the jetty at Doran Beach and climb and walk the big rocks all the way to the end....
