Psalm 19:7

We need to be filling up on good things because there is so much gunk out there that fills our lives. To flush out the bad stuff, we just fill our lives, our hearts, and our minds with good stuff. This post explains very practically how to load up on the good and get rid of the bad.…

Psalm 19:7 “The law of the LORD is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the LORD are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.” John 1:17 “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.” This Christmas, when we think about getting what […]…

Last week we talked about being in a stretchy place, a place of being stretched. If you missed it, just click HERE to be sure to get your two free printables! For this week, I wanted to share another encouragement and a challenge — Something that caused me to take...…

We need to be filling up on good things because there is so much gunk out there that fills our lives. To flush out the bad stuff, we just fill our lives, our hearts, and our minds with good stuff. This post explains very practically how to load up on the good and get rid of the bad.…

Inspirational Thought of the Day: The One Who made the laws of God is the only One Who can keep them. Scriptures of the Day: Romans 3:20 “For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.” Romans 5:20 “Now the law […]…

It’s easy to forget that a Bible reading plan is a tool.…

It’s easy to forget that a Bible reading plan is a tool.…

Church leaders declared that the enslavement of other persons is “contrary to the laws of God.” In 1785, the first Book of Discipline published by the Methodists included a piece of church legislation that any church member who buys or sells slaves is “immediately to be expelled” from membership, “unless they buy them on purpose to free them.” In 1800, the General Conference issued a “Pastoral Letter on Slavery.” It said “the whole spirit of the New Testament militates in the strongest manner against the practice of slavery.” That pastoral letter directed annual conferences to appeal to the legislatures in their respective states for the emancipation of slaves. And it called for “the universal extirpation of this crying sin.” So the documented history of Methodism makes clear that the founders of the church considered slavery to be “evil.” Forty-four years after the General Conference enacted church laws to demand that Methodists free their slaves or leave the church and to insist that Methodists take public antislavery steps, the denomination decided to divide. As the above article makes clear, John Wesley,”Denied that it was acceptable for anyone to be excused from judgment on the grounds that one was not personally a slave owner.” In our day, we might say, “Yes, she or he is a slave to sin, but what is that to me?” Worse, we call slavery, freedom.…

There are things we appreciate and value from our childhood as well as things our parents did that we don’t want to emulate. But there is one parent we should always aspire to be like: our Father in heaven.…

God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day (Ps. 7:11). For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unright……