Faith and Christian Living
In my last post, I talked about when Jesus died on the cross our sin debt was paid in full, and our salvation was completed. But there are many people who aren’t experiencing the benefit of what He accomplished for them. Even though they trust in and follow Jesus, they don’t just believe they WERE sinners saved by […]
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. John 19:30 records the last words spoken by Jesus on the cross, “It is finished.” The Greek word used here is teleo, or tetelestai, which meant accomplished, finished, fulfilled completed, paid, perfected, performed. So what does that mean for us? “In the first-century Greco-Roman world, the term “tetelestai” was commonly used in various contexts,
There are days it’s hard to feel God’s presence. Hearing loss has impacted my ability to have quiet time with the Lord. I used to go on a walk in our neighborhood listening to and singing worship music. Lately that has been fraught with difficulty because music doesn’t necessarily sound like it’s supposed to. I’m grateful I can
Every one of us comes into this world with the need to feel loved, even people who say they don’t do the “touchy-feely” thing. They need love like anyone else – they just don’t acknowledge it. To meet this need for love, we often go “lookin’ for love in all the wrong places,” to borrow the title
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At Christmas everyone is thinking about gifts, wanting to make people happy with their offerings. We also refer to talented artists, musicians, or athletes, for example as gifted, and we try to perform as well as they do. But it’s easy to get discouraged when we compare ourselves to them, maybe even feeling like we have
Some people say that all religions are the same, and what’s important is that you’re sincere in your beliefs. Just try to be a good person, and all will go well. But real Christianity is not at all like the others. The first difference is that from the start Christianity acknowledges that we CAN’T be good people. (Besides,
The verse of the day on my Bible app was Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.” Not always easy when things aren’t going well. It easier to focus on the difficulties and disappointments. But that verse won’t go away, and it says, always. So what do I do? Remember. In Psalm 77, Asaph says
Four and a half years ago, when things were topsy-turvy in our world, I wrote a post about keeping the “main thing the main thing” http://cyndicarter.com/2021/03/03/the-main-thing/. Well, much to my dismay, things are at least if not more chaotic, and so I’d like to address what’s going on. As I walked this morning the words of Paul
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Odd things can spark a chain of thoughts. I was folding clothes and picked up my engineer hubby’s t-shirt that sports the message “I am the warranty” on the back. It makes his engineer heart sing to fix things, which he loves to do. I thought of verses like 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, “And it is God who
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Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. The last few weeks have been busy with unexpected “duties as assigned.” Yet another friend is seriously ill (third one this year), and we’re processing that. My hubby remembered a song, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” which had meant a lot to me almost twenty years ago when I had
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