Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Tag: strength
Salvation and Strength
Saturday Song: Jesus What a Friend for Sinners
Jesus! what a friend for sinners! Jesus! lover of my soul; Friends may fail me, foes assail me, He, my Savior, makes me whole. Jesus! what a strength in weakness! Let me hide myself in Him; Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing, He, my strength, my vict'ry wins. Jesus! what a help in sorrow! While the… Continue reading Saturday Song: Jesus What a Friend for Sinners
Anger and Action
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the… Continue reading Anger and Action
To love with all
Fall break means more time for reading! This week I started Dr. Helen Roseveare's book 'Living Sacrifice'. In the preface, Dr. Roseveare expounds on what it means to be "a living sacrifice" (Romans 12) and show love for God (John 14:21). At the end, she writes thoughtfully about what it means to love God with… Continue reading To love with all
The Heart of a Single Woman’s Home: Buying a House (part 7 of 8)
While I knew of a handful of single women who were homeowners, I didn’t think I had the courage to do it. I was afraid that buying a house as a single woman in her late-20s would send one of two messages. The first message I was afraid to send was that I was too strong to need a man or that I’d at least be difficult to lead. The second message was that I had resigned to my singleness by giving up and buying a house.
Saturday Song: Grace by Laura Story
This song is one of my all-time favorites. It is powerful to me on two fronts. First it echoes the promises found in the Bible concerning God's generosity with His grace. There is never a time that a child of His has come asking for it that He has not freely given it. Second, these… Continue reading Saturday Song: Grace by Laura Story
Firm in Faith
I love when readings from two different sources on two different days speak in unison. Last night during Bible study, we read Isaiah 7:9. Today, the morning devotional (though on a different verse) from Spurgeon's Morning & Evening series continued the discussion we had last night. If you are not firm in faith, you will… Continue reading Firm in Faith
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