Share With Others

Devotional writers have been tasked this week to write “about a time when God changed your situation and how you were compelled to share with others,” like the man who was deaf and mute and was healed by Jesus (Mark 7:31–37). Unfortunately, I have to...

Do It Anyway

Pues Dios no nos ha dado un espíritu de timidez, sino do poder, de amor y de dominio propio. — 2 Timoteo 1:7 NVI For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. — 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV Last year at the...

Let The Light In

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. — Ephesians 5: 8–10 I desperately want to be light...

God Is The God Of Our Going And Staying

I had to laugh in church on Sunday when Paul McDill preached at the Sunnyvale campus about going and staying. There are few things in my life that I have more experience with. I’ve lived in 18 different places, in two countries and five states. We’ve lived...

Sanctification In Real Time

Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” He...

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may...