...g stones, and the vine, and sheep, and all of these things which are deep, rich teaching metaphors. But when it talks about family, that is not a metaphor. It is actually a reality of the way that God now sees us. He’s not just like a father to us. He actually is a Father.” “This is what bowled the Apostle John over in 1st John. He says, ‘Behold, what love The Father has given to us that we should be called Children of God!...
Type: Article Categories: Relationships
...and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.” 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 I count 16 qualifications for this man of God. Each one involves taking the low road, the sacrificial road, the humble road. How many do you see? My personal lesson was seeing the words of Jesus worked out in Paul’s exemplary life. Jesus said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of...
Type: Article Categories: Biblical Studies, Faith Radio Blog, Your Faith
...pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich (20) The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but the foolish man devours all he has. It is the wise that “store up” “choice” feed and olive oil. The Hebrew word for “store up” is usually translated “grazing place, stopping place, settlement”. The sense is that it is a place of restful dwelling. In this context, the word becomes a restful, quiet place where choice...
Type: Article Categories: Business + Finance, Your Life
...ng to be nothing from the world’s perspective. If you want to live a full, rich and satisfying life, give generously to others as though you had an endless supply to draw from. If you want to be healed, tend to the wounds of others. This is an upside-down kingdom where to be last is to be first, to be humble is to be exalted, and to suffer well is to reflect the very glory of God. Recently on Middays with Susie Larson, I spoke with author and past...
Type: Article Categories: Church + Culture, Uncategorized
...Rich Merkouris shares big questions from his congregation, and how we can be content, regardless of circumstance. Then Todd Wilson helps us discover God’s spiritual purpose for our physical bodies from his book, Mere Sexuality....
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...creation! Read this powerful passage: Ephesians 2:4-7 (NLT): But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!) For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus. So God can point to us in all future ages...
Type: Article Categories: Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized, Your Faith
The music of Christmas is one of our favorite things about this season—rich in wonder and powerful in theology. Rob Morgan has written several volumes of hymn stories, including . He reviews the story behind the Christmas hymn, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas through music. “It was written by Phillips Brooks who was it giant of a man, he was 6’6” and weighed 300 hundred pounds. He pastored in th...
Type: Article Categories: Church + Culture, Your Life
...rcise, but increase your intake of Omega 3 fats such as salmon or take EPS rich fish oil capsules. You should also take a good multi-vitamin especially loaded with B and D and eat lean proteins, complex carbohydrates, whole foods, fruits and vegetables instead of processed ones. Today, research indicates that we are getting 90 minutes less sleep per night than our ancestors did 100 years ago. What is that costing us? We have more road rage, shoppi...
Type: Article Categories: Faith Radio Blog, Health + Wellness, Your Life
...y vain glory. Proverbs 23:4-5 reminds us, “Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.” Work. Are you grateful for it? I am. In whatever form it comes. Let us lift up Labor Day prayers of gratitude to God for bodies and minds able to do the work He gives us, that we might care for our own needs and, in...
Type: Article Categories: Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized, Your Faith
...Andy Farmer, MA, has served as a pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, PA, for over twenty years. He also serves on the Council Board of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and is the author of The Rich Single Life and Real Peace. He and his wife Jill live in West Chester, PA, and have four children, including three married daughters and several grandchildren. ...
Type: Authors
Bronywn Lea says we’re missing something big in the way we’re looking at relationships between men & women in the church. When we buy into our culture’s narrative that the only destination in that scenario is a romantic one, we’re losing sight of an extraordinary reality – the family of God.…
Bronywn Lea says we’re missing something big in the way we’re looking at relationships between men & women in the church. When we buy into our culture’s narrative that the only destination in that scenario is a romantic one, we’re losing sight of an extraordinary reality – the family of God.…
Bronywn Lea says we’re missing something big in the way we’re looking at relationships between men & women in the church. When we buy into our culture’s narrative that the only destination in that scenario is a romantic one, we’re losing sight of an extraordinary reality – the family of God.…
