Always New, a Living Love (Lent 12, 2024)

Our Eternal God IS Love and is therefore an infinite source out of Whom this love flows. This love is always new.  He can do (and be!) no other than Love.  It is His nature. Just as the water of a wild and flowing river is never a recycled repeat of the same water again […]

February 27, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Infinite Love (Lent 11, 2024)

Being finite people with a limited lifespan, we have a maturation point before ultimate decline by aging.  This is why it’s hard to wrap our minds around something that is infinite and always new.  God is Love. He doesn’t have to feel love in order to know it.  He doesn’t have to invent it or […]

February 26, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Sabbath 2, Lent 2024

This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Seeing His Love with New Eyes” resumes tomorrow after today’s Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on confidence in the forgiveness, grace, and mercy of our God.

February 25, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Fearless Confidence (Lent 10, 2024)

“Seeing His Love with New Eyes” requires seeing that, with God, it is possible that sin gets punished completely even while God remains pure and perfect love.  God did this through Jesus Christ. We’ve looked at this before, but we need a constant reminder that Scripture says, “There is no fear in love. But perfect […]

February 24, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Hide and Cover (Lent 9, 2024)

There was a time when mankind was neither afraid nor ashamed.  It’s hard to imagine what that world must have been like, but that’s the very world God created and into which God placed the first man and woman. Something changed in the very moment Adam and Eve chose to sin.  And sin brings fear. […]

February 23, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Narrow Road of Forgiveness (Lent 8, 2024)

In a recent Super Bowl ad, the “Jesus Gets Us” movement portrayed Jesus’ followers washing the feet of people sometimes derided by Evangelical Christians as sinners. Granted, there are limitations in a 60-second ad and a broad brush is being used to paint Christian thought, but there is great benefit in our discussing what it […]

February 22, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Still There with Selfless Love (Lent 7, 2024)

Once Adam and Eve sinned, there was no going back to the relationship they had before sinning against God.  No longer would they see the world only in selfless terms.  Selfishness now dominates this world, but God is still selflessly loving His creation. . Sin’s appeal to the selfish human nature post-fall has blinded us.  […]

February 21, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Set Apart in Selfless Love (Lent 6, 2024)

When Adam and Eve were confronted by the serpent, the issue of oneself vs. God presented itself for the first time.  Before that time, there was no conflict between God and man.  God was selfless and so were Adam and Eve living in God’s selfless love.  Initially, Adam and Eve had only known selfless living, […]

February 20, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Tuning in to the Difference (Lent 5, 2024)

Many will reject the divine love of Jesus and the life He came to give because sin has distorted their perception of God … so much, in fact, that repentance is out of the question.  They don’t see the divine, sacrificial love. They believe their need for salvation is, therefore, beneath them and their intellect, […]

February 19, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Sabbath 1, Lent 2024

Meditate on how God is Love.  Not as some superficial saying, but as profound truth.  A fountain of ever-flowing love raining down and covering you.  Let His love wash over you like a fountain that is never exhausted as you worship Him in spirit and in truth. This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Seeing His Love […]

February 18, 2024 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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