Entries Tagged as ‘God’

August 18, 2007

Are we willing to love them?

It is estimated that on average 1,202,000 abortions are performed monthly worldwide. Some studies show there are approximately 2 million gay men living in the United States and almost 1 million lesbians (I think that estimate is probably low). One study showed that on June 30, 2006 there were 2,245,189 prisoners held in Federal or [...]

August 11, 2007

Our First Priority Each Day

I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world. Sometimes I considered myself before Him as a poor criminal at the feet of his judge; at other times I beheld Him in my heart as [...]

August 9, 2007

Thank You “Secret Sister”

There it sat, on the bottom row of cluttered and unorganized shelves at the Humane Society Thrift Store, a copy of Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest.” I had been in search of a new devotional and this was one I had often thought of. So I dislodged the book from between copies of [...]

August 5, 2007

Faith Redefined

In his book The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning shares the following:
“If a random sample of one thousand American Christians were taken today, the majority would define faith as belief in the existence of God. In earlier times it did not take faith to believe that God existed – almost everybody took that for granted. Rather, [...]

August 4, 2007

God is Good All the Time!

This post originally appeared on www.blog.myspace.com/jm_waters on 28 Nov 2006 and was the framework for my testimony given at King’s Baptist Church which you can listen to here .
God is Good All the Time!
Think about the power of this statement for a moment.
If God is Good All the Time, then:
He is Loving – All the Time!
He [...]