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I may not be able to fully know Him, but I can know Him because I am known of Him and He draws me closer daily.

  Here is your God. This is a God who gathers masses of outcasts, who gets personally involved with individuals, and manages the universe at the same time. This is a God of undivided attention. The same attention God gives to atomic structures and cosmic operations is directed toward your hurts and broken heart, the…

  He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. – John 9:25 “I see,” we say and we mean that we understand. “I see,” we say, and indicate that something which was formerly behind a cloud has…

  We fall; we rise.We are adjudicated and found guilty and then …The Judge steps down from the bench to plead our case.It is as if we cannot lose; every loss becomes a win. " Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;when I fall, I shall rise;when I sit in darkness,the LORD will be a…

  God does not let us get by with our sins; He forgives them. That is two different things. Being forgiven is not "getting by" with something. It is a mystery that, for the follower of Jesus, makes sense in the drama and reality of the cross and which always leads to awe and worship.…

There is more to do than can be done.A smorgasbord of fun.The race is longer than can be run.Face it; we are under the gun.So … do what you can while you can. "As long as it is day, I must do the work of Him Who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one…

In case you need a couple of expository sermons on Romans 9: We must come to terms with the prerogatives of God do be God, but balance our understanding with the revelation and demonstration of God’s character in the course of history and the person of Jesus.

  And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. – John 9:1   They asked a silly question as they looked down on the blind beggar, “Who sinned?” Was it his parents? Or was it him? They had read parts of the scriptures, but not all. They had left…

We may be afraid for people to know we are human, but it is useless to to try and hide that reality from God. He knows.

At some point, what we have received conceptually, pondered intellectually, and considered devotionally must be applied experientially, lived intentionally, and multiplied exponentially… after a moment of encounter, there is something that must be done.