Everything New- B.G.
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When I visited Esther in her tin shed in a Nairobi slum, I found myself talking to the person closest to Job in the Old Testament that I’d ever met. I didn’t know at that moment that she was […]
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And I asked “why, why, why, oh God? Why did it have to be only my sister who was killed on the patrol that day?” -20-year-old female American soldier speaking at her twin sister’s funeral. It is the mystery that always seems to move further from our reach the more we reach out for an
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When we relate the pieces of life back to God as source, and believe that the pieces are there for him and his purposes, we can see the sense in it all. Regarding the human race, broken into so
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] All the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn’t put Humpty together again. -Nursery Rhyme Life would be easier, wouldn’t it, if all its pieces held together. If they always made sense. If nothing ever broke off. If
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Against the gray clouds and darkness across the human race stands one distinctive life-a brilliant, even blinding light. Jesus the Messiah, called many things, is also known uniquely as “him who had no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Because the
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] The prophet Isaiah put it this way: “For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the LORD,
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Whenever I hear a public figure defend himself with the oft-repeated words “I know I’m not a perfect person,” I wince. It seems the height of pride. I feel like saying, “No, the thought never crossed anybody’s mind
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] To understand how God wants to “make everything new” in the world and in our lives we have to go back to when humanity was new the first time. That is why we are so captivated by the
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] In the beginning God created all things, and that tells us about his character. The world is a place of beauty, complexity and order, because that is what God is like. But it is when the Genesis account
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] On the night before Christmas in the year 1968 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, the crew of Apollo 8, were further away from the earth than any human beings had been. It was the first time
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] They say you only have one chance to make a first impression. That is because “new” can only be new once. What an impression God made at the start of all things. The very beginning of the very
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