Guest Devotional

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” John 14:15 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.”  John 15:12 “By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.” John 13:35   Just one more thought about God […]

I, Karen, am still thinking about the death of loved ones, Christ’s union with me, and our separation.  I see this ebb and flow of separation and reunion that runs through a Christian’s life and is entered into through deaths.  Spiritual separation through death because of Adam’s sin; spiritual reunion because of Christ’s death on

I, Karen, have had the honor of knowing a couple who have truly experienced “the two shall become one (Matt. 19:5)” and who could not imagine anything except being together “until death do us part.” They really were in union with each other.  When one of them was dying, the surviving spouse mentioned how strange

Matthew 6:19-21 NASB “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say rejoice. Grace is God’s limitless and continual affection, acceptance, ability, and activity as a free gift in the person of Christ, to me, in me and through me. I’ve wondered on several occasions how a believer can rejoice in the Lord when he or she

Jesus, The Glory Of God Hebrew 1:3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature……… 2 Corinthians 4:4,6  (4) In whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the gospel

John 15:4,5  “Abide in Me, and  I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless your abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart

Psalms 139:7-12 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

John 1:14,16,17 ‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth………For of His fullness we have all received and grace upon grace……. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized (came to