the Gospel of Peace starts with those God has put closest to us… +~~~~+~~~~+~~~~+ 1 john 3.17-18 – But he who has this world’s resources and sees his brother in need and shuts off his inward parts from him, how does the love of God dwell in him? Little children, let us not love in [...]

ephesians 4.15-16 But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself [...]

people mess up. they make choices they deeply regret, & say & do things they wish to God they could take back. there’s loss, there’s pain, there’s bitterness – for everyone involved, even the innocent. and worst of all, there seems to be no way to go back. life seems permanently stuck. then God comes [...]

every time i spend time with God lately, he starts talking to me about miracles. there was a time just a few years ago where our family needed a miracle, & it was a life or death situation. God came thru for us. but it was months and months of what felt like hanging in [...]

i was talking with a good friend a couple years back about miracles, specifically about praying for the sick. i was halfway thru telling him about someone i prayed for who God healed, & there was a detail i mentioned about what i prayed that really struck him…& it was so insignificant to me i [...]

matthew 4.17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” matthew 4.23-24 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His [...]

matthew 2.21-23 Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of [...]

matthew 24.36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” acts 1.7-8 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy [...]

luke 9.49-50 Now John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.” But Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is on our side.” 1 corinthians 12. 21 And the eye [...]

Luke 3.2-6 The word of God came unto John the son of Zachariah in the wilderness. And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying [...]