Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
From Hebrews 11:1-3: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.”
Elton Trueblood (1900-1994) was an American Christian author and theologian. He served as chaplain to both Harvard and Stanford universities.
From Psalm 139:13-14: “For it was you who formed my inward parts;you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.”
From Psalm 139:23-24: “Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting.”
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. His informative radio posts during World War II brought news to the American public.
This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.
God invites us to come directly into His presence by way of His own dear Son.
From John 14:6: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
W. Phillip Keller (1920-1997) was born in Africa as the son of missionary parents. His life’s mission would allow him to become a world citizen as a photographer, agronomist, and Christian author.
Whenever we search out biblical truth about Christ–and we find it in Leviticus as well as in Luke–we are turning our leaves toward the light.
From Leviticus 24:1-4: “The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. Aaron shall set it up in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain of the covenant, to burn from evening to morning before the Lord regularly; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. He shall set up the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.'”
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.
The simplicity of the Gospel gives what the complexity of human wisdom promises but never delivers.
From Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good,and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindnessand to walk humbly with your God?”
John MacArthur (born 1939) is an American pastor and Christian author.
From Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
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From the words of American pastor and Christian author, Charles Swindoll: “Grace operates apart from the response or the ability of the individual. Grace is one-sided. Grace is God giving Himself in full acceptance to someone who does not deserve it and can never earn it and will never be able to repay.”
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