“But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come”—John 16:13 (NIV). When I sit down to write, I pray for God’s Holy Spirit to …
“Then the Lord God asked the woman, ‘What have you done?’ ‘The serpent deceived me,’” she replied. “‘That’s why I ate it’”—Genesis 3:13 (NLT). A recent email reminded me of how easy it might be to fall for a scam if we’re not discerning. The idiom, “If something seems too good to be true, it …
“For since the world began no one has seen or heard of such a God as ours, who works for those who wait for him!”—Isaiah 64:4 (TLB). Before I learned to wait on God’s timing, impatience would have been my middle name. I didn’t like waiting on anything or anyone. We spend our lives waiting. …
“But don’t take any of this for granted. It was only yesterday that you outsiders to God’s ways had no idea of any of this, didn’t know the first thing about the way God works, hadn’t the faintest idea of Christ. You knew nothing of that rich history of God’s covenants and promises in Israel, …
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