“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”  Romans 5:5 (ESV) There are days when life just feels heavy. The kind of days when we wonder if things will ever turn around, or if God has […]

ESV And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place ofDavid my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.  1 Kings 3:7 In the 17th century, people began calling the third molars “the teeth of wisdom.” Eventually, the […]

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.  Romans 6:11 Paul is inviting us to see ourselves differently—through God’s eyes. In Christ, our old, sinful nature has died. That’s not just a behavior change—it’s a change in identity. We no longer belong to sin; we belong entirely […]