God saw everything that had been created, the whole wide world: and God knew that the Good Earth was a beautiful planet, full with abundance, teeming with life, and supremely good. Genesis 1:31 – author paraphrase This is an exciting moment for me! I get to feature photographs of our amazing grandson and his parents.…
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Certainly the faithful love of the Lord hasn’t ended; certainly God’s compassion isn’t through! They are renewed every morning. Great is your faithfulness. I think: The Lord is my portion! Therefore, I’ll wait for him. – Lamentations 3:22-24 I skipped yesterday’s post for obvious reasons. We were in Virginia Beach to finally – after six months – lay Rebekah’s…
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have…
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One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love…
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It is very unusual to make it all the way to the middle of May having played only a couple of rounds of golf! But this year has been so fragmented, and so busy, and so difficult to navigate that any activity involving several uninterrupted hours has been close to impossible to pull off. Even…
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours.Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. 1 Chronicles 29:11 I would like to thank everyone for the tremendous response to yesterday’s important announcement (A Huge Moment for Rebekah and Derek).…
That evening the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “That isn’t necessary — you feed them.” Matthew 14:15-16 Today – May 1st – I want to focus…
But now, says the Lord—the one who created you, Jacob, the one who formed you, Israel:Don’t fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine… …Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I love you. – Isaiah 43:1,4 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which…
Those who had gathered together asked Jesus, “Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel now?” Jesus replied, “It isn’t for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority. Rather, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will…
But [the young man] said to them, “Don’t be alarmed! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He isn’t here. Look, here’s the place where they laid him. Go, tell his disciples, especially Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there,…
