Are you in a dark season of your life? I don’t just mean you’re stressed out or even at the end of your rope or in a personal “wilderness”. Are you in a place where you don’t even recognize yourself? Is your guilt and shame over not being the woman you ‘ought to be’ or…

Matthew 18 and Luke 15 contains Jesus’ parable about a shepherd who leaves 99 sheep of his flock to go in search of one that had wandered away. Jesus gave this illustration in response to the Pharisees who were not happy with Jesus being in the company of sinners (see Luke 15:2). In response to…

“He knew that when God would lay on Him the sins of us all, it would mean a terrible moment of separation from the face of God… nevertheless He turned aside to comfort these unhappy followers of His.” — Martyn Lloyd-Jones, from his book “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled” If I ever have a…

In 26 verses, John chapter 17 contains Jesus’s high priestly prayer. It was His prayer to God The Father before Jesus’s crucifixion… and it was on your behalf, on my behalf, for all those who would ever receive the gracious gift of salvation through all of human history. Jesus begins His prayer with, “Father, the…

Shepherds in biblical times and in the Jewish culture are quite fascinating. Their work was humble, simple yet a sacrificial calling. The flock is the shepherd’s possession, but unlike the Western view of what one’s possession is, the flock is treasured, well-cared for and sacrificed for because the flock is in the shepherd’s possession. A…

One of the great and beautiful mysteries of The Bible is how God uses marriage to illustrate His love of us. The Apostle Paul even describes it as such in the well-known chapter Ephesians 5 (verse 32). Mark 2:19-20, John 3:29, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Revelation chapters 19, 21 and 22 are among many other passages…

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If we are to savor God as He commands us to in the Bible (because He is worthy and Holy), we must understand and savor His attributes. The following is not an exhaustive, but a short summary of some of God’s attributes: God is eternal, infinite — He had always existed in eternity past and…

There are seasons where I feel like I am on autopilot everyday and it could last for weeks or even months. God said of Israel, “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:13).…

To truly grasp God’s wonderous love, we must internalize the fact that He is Holy. If you were asked to use a word that encapsulates everything God is, what would it be? Love? Power? Creative? Wisdom? Justice? Eternal? Yes, all of these words describe God because He in His very essence IS all of these…