“When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross,” ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭2‬:‭13‬-‭14‬, ‭NIV‬‬. Recently we sang a “new to me” song at church, and one of the lines hit me like a ton of bricks: “There is a cross made for you.” I thought, I know Jesus died for my

“And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness,” Ephesians 4:24, ESV. I was at a prayer meeting recently, and the sweetness of earnest confession filled the room. As I think about some of the struggles young men and women go through it’s as if they have stepped into a snake’s mouth and were swallowed whole. This is not a unique situation just for the young, it’s one we all experience. At times we all feel like one decision we

“T here is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus,” Galatians 3:28, NIV. They do say birds of a feather flock together. Which is pretty true. One doesn’t see penguins nesting with ostriches. One also won’t find sparrows soaring happily with birds that have three inch talons. God created species of their own kind. Yet, God made mankind a little lower than the angels and literally breathed His life into