This is the promise of the gospel, brought to life right alongside Jesus on that first Christmas day. Our broken hearts will one day be mended, and this broken world will one day be remade.
Our God is a God who restores, renews, and remakes. He turns graves into gardens, bones into armies, and seas into highways. As the song says: He's the only one who can.
It's not wishful thinking. It's not a vain hope. It's a certainty and an eventual reality that gives us the strength to carry on.
As we leave 2020 behind, know that this promise, written long before the coronavirus entered our world, still stands. It is just as trustworthy and true now as it was then.
At the end of July, frustrated with my seeming inability to get myself to the gym to work out, I started walking for about an hour every day. Thirty-five days...
At the end of July, frustrated with my seeming inability to get myself to the gym to work out, I started walking for about an hour every day. Thirty-five days...
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I think it’s important to remember that Jesus isn’t sitting in heaven with a clipboard tracking our Bible reading each day....
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I think it’s important to remember that Jesus isn’t sitting in heaven with a clipboard tracking our Bible reading each day....
The promise of the gospel is not that I would never face trouble or hardship in this life, but that when those troubles come my way, I do not face them alone.
The promise of the gospel is not that I would never face trouble or hardship in this life, but that when those troubles come my way, I do not face them alone.
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