I can still remember being a kid and reading about stiff-necked people. I imagined them to be thick about the neck and shoulders, struggling to turn their heads to better hear and obey God.
Category: Devotions
Friend, there are no shortcuts to God’s best. If we take the quickest route, we will arrive at the final destination without the character required to sustain such an address.
Here’s the thing: there are no exclusions on the gospel. No blackout dates or destinations.
Try as we might, the plans of man will never stand agains the purposes of God.
‘What If’ is a query grief insists upon. Mary and Martha each felt it’s provocation and so will we.
Hating evil has nothing to do with hating people. Our world has falsely entwined the two. Hating evil is abhorring the affliction that plagues humanity and in the same breath, fighting tirelessly to extricate souls from sin’s deadly grip.
“As they approached Jerusalem and came to the Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of His disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there,…
“Now some of the teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves…” (Mark 2:6 NIV) The Pharisees spent all their time in Jesus’ presence in dissection and accusation. Jesus’ ministry looked so wildly different than their own, they could wrap their minds around…