Author name: Aslan

God doesn’t transform us through fear. He transforms us through favor. He doesn’t change us by threatening us; instead, he changes us by luring us with “the more” of Jesus. You and I in Christ are coheirs with Jesus, and therefore all that he is and all that he has is ours because of our […]

Song of Solomon 1:2-4a  “May you kiss me with the kisses of your commandments! For your massive love is better than any pleasure I have experienced in this world. Your presence is so satisfying. Your very name is “Presence (life) poured out; No wonder the Hidden ones love you. Draw (take) me away, and we

Olivia would never have appreciated it if I had spent time with her because I felt like I was supposed to or because I felt guilty if I didn’t. She would not have valued me doing extravagant things for her if it was out of a sense of duty or guilt. She wanted me to

Psalm 73:25-26 AMPC  Whom have I in heaven but You? And with You I desire nothing on earth. [26] My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the Rock and firm Strength of my heart and my Portion forever. Thirty years ago, while experiencing a heartbreaking situation, the Lord gave me these two

Mark 6:45-52 NASB95  Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away. [46] After bidding them farewell, He left for the mountain to pray. [47] When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of

Luke 1:15-17 NASB95  For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb. [16] And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God. [17]

John 3:8 NASB95  The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” About 40 years ago, I read a book by someone who said that one of the chief

Mark 4:35-40 NASB  On that day, when evening came, He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.” [36] Leaving the crowd, they took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him. [37] And there arose a fierce gale of wind, and the

Galatians 6:14-15 GNT  As for me, however, I will boast only about the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; for by means of his cross the world is dead to me, and I am dead to the world. [15] It does not matter at all whether or not one is circumcised; what does matter is

Galatians 6:14-15 NASB95  But may it never be that I would boast, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. [15] For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. John 17:13-16,18 NASB95  But now I come to