Category: Forgiveness

A New Year’s Love

.Reading time 12 minutes.

The Prodigal Son is probably the best known, and the best loved, of all of the parables told by Jesus.  I think that’s because it tells the story of the kind of father we would all like to have.  Some of us may have been blessed with a father similar to the one in the […]

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Romans 3–4: Righteousness & Faith

.Reading time 8 minutes.

We either stand before God as a guilty rebel under His judgment, or through faith in Christ, we stand clean before Him in joy and wonder.

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Isaiah 1–6: Pride & Judgment

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 1: Friday “The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day….” “The pride of man will be humbled And the loftiness of men will be abased; And the LORD alone will […]

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A New Year’s Second Chance

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Have you been running away lately?  Maybe not physically, but in your mind or emotions?  Have things seemed overwhelming and you don’t know exactly how God is going to help you or deliver you?  Are you thinking you just ought to give up?  Or maybe at some point in the past perhaps you did give […]

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Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Carol of the Bells featured a hand bell choir in Taiwan.  The lyrics of Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour were written in China by Frank Houghton, an Englishman.  The words, the music and the story behind the writing of this hymn make this song one of my favorite Christmas carols. “…This hymn was […]

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Mary, Did You Know?

.Reading time 4 minutes.

There are some songs with words and music so personally significant, I still remember the first time I heard them.  Mary, Did You Know? is one of those songs.  I first heard it sung by a small vocal ensemble at the water’s edge of a town harbor during an outdoor Christmas celebration ten years ago. […]

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The Context of Two Gifts

.Reading time 14 minutes.

You may have wondered why, if Joy to the World is my favorite Christmas carol, I didn’t wait and post it on Christmas Day. I have several reasons. Joy is a major theme of Philippians, and I want to keep this theme in mind—because the topic of  Philippians 1:29 is one that is difficult for us […]

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