Sabbath 3, 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 God’s infinite, inexhaustible, and impeccable love.
Love Made Complete (Lent 16, 2024)
“Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. This is how we know that we live in Him and He in us: He has given […]
Life Beyond the Pardon (Lent 15, 2024)
Most of us are clueless about the death sentence we were facing as simple humans. We blissfully live our lives as though are our sins really aren’t that bad and certainly wouldn’t rise to the “death penalty level.” But Scripture says: Romans 5: 10 “Death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of […]
He Loved Us First (Lent 14, 2024)
Scripture tells us about this kind of love that we need new eyes to see. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. … We love because he first loved us. (1 John. 4:10,19) God loved us first. Before […]
God’s Restorative Love (Lent 13, 2024)
James Taylor’s version of “Handy Man” hit number one in 1977. He recorded it as a slower version, more of a ballad-style of the original Jones/Blackwell hit. James sings he “can fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can” which the lulling vocals seem to affirm he could do. In reality, however, full restoration […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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. […]
