Four-Fold Blessings: Clear, Kind, Loving, and Bountiful Deuteronomy 10:12–22 and 11:1–17 show us a God who does not leave His people guessing, abandoned, or empty-handed. In these words Moses holds up four expressions of the Lord’s blessing. They are not abstract ideas; they are the way God relates to the people He has chosen. Even…
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A feeling is not a covenant. A word for the husband or wife waiting to feel like staying — and for anyone who learned that love is weather. I know this house when the lamps are low. That is where a marriage actually lives. Not in the photograph from the day you said the words.…
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A picture can make you think of the Cross. Only He can finish the work. Creation is not thin. It is older than your questions and stranger than most sermons. Oaks hold on. Scarlet comes from small lives people once crushed for holy cloth. A hillside takes the weather and does not explain itself. If…
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Children are not a prize for adults. They are a heritage from the Lord. “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.” (Psalm 127:3) When we speak about adoption, we are speaking about one of the most solemn trusts a society can give: the care of a child…
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