What Would You Do for God’s Blessing? Jacob says: “Anything.”
Multiple times, Jacob performed feats of daring, strength, and desperation to get God’s blessing. Will you value God’s hand on your life like he did?
As the grandson of Abraham, Jacob must have heard repeatedly about the God of his fathers and about that God’s covenant ...
Stand in the Breach: Moses’s Shining Moment and Ours
Moses once famously stopped God from destroying Israel. To do it, he disagreed completely (and vocally) with the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and we Christ-followers are called to have the courage to pray for ourselves and others with that kind of ...
Ten pm. Saturday night. Pregnant, I sat on the bathroom floor in tears.
“It’s just so hard to cook dinner every single night!” I sobbed.
My husband listened quietly. A patient man, he clearly empathized.
Then he spoke. I could make all the meals at the beginning of the ...
Lions are described as the king of the jungle and for a good reason. Lions are majestic, strong, and courageous. They are also fierce protectors. A lion’s roar can be heard five miles away. Jesus is known to us as the Lamb of God (John 1:29). He is also known as the Lion of ...
About 400 years after Israel left Egypt and settled in the land that God had promised His people, the nation was ruled by God’s appointed judges. The last judge, Samuel, was also a prophet. Samuel judged Israel successfully and faithfully all the days of his life. When he ...
In the Gospel of John, Jesus, on his way to Galilee from Jerusalem, encountered a Samaritan woman at a well. There she asks him an unusual question, “How can you being a Jew ask me for a drink when the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans?” (John 4:3-7). The Samaritans ...
