Trusting in God that He will do what He says He will do is one of the main things about being God’s people. This was how it began and this is how it continues. Radical obedience based on simple trust in God’s promises is our DNA as Christians. Have you ever discovered an old photo […]
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People go through a cycle of bolting themselves from one shakeable and unreliable object to another for security, never finding rest for their souls. But not so for us, because – through Jesus Christ – we have been bolted to God Himself in the new covenant. The only immovable things in this world are the
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It would be easy to look at what is going on in the world today and wonder if the Lord was no longer involved. Seeing what takes place in the news, you may think God isn’t even there. God, however, had a plan for the world from the very beginning, and his designs haven’t changed.
Pretend that you are Noah and you’ve been on the ark for about a year. You and your family alone have been spared in this worldwide, comprehensive annihilation, and at last you step off the boat onto dry ground. What is the first thing you would do? Would you kiss the ground? Would you organize
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Verse 1: The past few Sundays, we’ve been climbing up the front side of this story about Noah and now we’ve reached the peak. What we find here in this very important part of the history of God’s people is God remembering. Now, when it is written in Scripture that God remembers, it is not
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Verse 11: There’s nothing that makes you feel smaller than when you contemplate the great deeps and the great heights. Sailing across the ocean with no land in sight makes you feel so small—all alone out in that great, massive body of water. Flying in a plane, you keep climbing and climbing, and everything that you
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