Miraculous

Miraculous

“All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ – which means, ‘God with us’” (Matthew 1:22-23 NIV) I was in the delivery room for the birth of...
Making God’s Love Real

Making God’s Love Real

By Darlene Franklin Zero percent variance. God’s love never changes. At all. If God pelts the earth with a meteor storm of His love, it doesn’t diminish. (Psalm 36:5 MSG) We don’t have the under or detour around His love. It fills every crook of the known and the...
Blessed

Blessed

“But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid! For behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.’” (Luke 2:10 BSB) A few years back my younger daughter, Heather, spent her Christmas break recovering from surgery to her left leg. She was...
Perfect

Perfect

“For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.” (Hebrews 10:14 NIV) My son had a hard time pronouncing “v’s” and “r’s” when he was young. He was in the fourth grade by the time he could say “very” instead of “wehwy.” At his sixth...
Reaching

Reaching

“Little children, let us not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.” (1 John 3:18 NHEB) God sent Jesus into the world to be a sacrifice to atone for our sins (1Jn. 4:10). He sent His Son to atone for our sins so we could be at one with...