What if I told you that slavery didn’t end with the Civil War? Even after America became a free country, people are still hidden in bondage. What if I told you that today, girls just like you, are trapped in a life they can’t get out of? They are slaves to the pleasure of men.
Have you ever made a craft, an art project or a science experiment that you absolutely loved and thought it was the best ever? You knew you were going to get accolades, an “A” or win the State competition with your work? It’s an incredible feeling when you devote yourself to creating something that you’re proud of.
Jesus Last Words in Matthew 28 19 The last words that Jesus proclaimed to His disciples before He returned to heaven are found in Matthew 28: 19, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been
We all have a story. We each have history. There are certain chapters and characters of our stories that we love and cherish. But then there are others that we would rather forget and ignore. We want to forget the chapters of our lives that contain our dark secrets and disheartening hardships. Some of us talk to God about those hard times, but some of us keep quiet because we feel frustrated, hopeless and don’t know where God was during those times of pain. We tend to ignore the chapters that hurt the most and pretend they never occurred.
When flowers, hearts and other symbols of Cupid flood store fronts, it’s easy to get caught up in the emotion of love, but we can’t understand or embrace true love without first understanding God’s love for us. Here’s 9 songs (plus a few bonus songs) about Jesus’ love for us. The book of John says that the very essence of Christ is love.
Heaven will be filled with lots of people. In fact so many that no one person can count them!
During the season that’s surrounded by consumerism, the Lord reminds us that things don’t solve any problems. God’s intention is to satisfy our every need. When we offer Him our gratitude, we will discover God’s peace.
What was life like for Jesus growing up? Would He have faced the same issues as we do today?
The end of the second stanza of Silent Night notes, “Jesus, Lord at thy birth. Jesus, Lord at thy birth.” Jesus was Lord from the very first day of His life. We may think of this regularly, but we hardly contemplate how that impacts us on a human level. Jesus’ purpose was to be our Lord. He had that purpose placed upon Him from the very moment He entered this world.
The Bible speaks boldly about love. Not just the agape love that God has for us, it speaks of love in relationships: the love we have for our family, our friends and in marriage.
