What happens when you strip away decades of religious assumptions and open the Scriptures with fresh eyes? At age 20, a former LDS missionary took a bold challenge to read the New Testament like a child—and discovered a life-altering truth.
You were ultimately made to respond to God’s heart. You were made to know the voice of the Good Shepherd, to lean on his care, to depend on his provisions, to trust in his protection. You were made to come running when your Father calls you home to sit at his table!
In this article, explore practical ways to scripture meditation that help feed our souls in everyday life.
If the Sermon on the Mount is part of the larger structure and progression in Matthews Gospel, then we cant make understanding the Sermon on the Mount about something other than what the rest of the book is about. Matthew is clearly not about a legalistic summons to earn your way into heaven.
When we sign up to follow Jesus, are we signing up for a lifetime of frustration?
God has been gracious to give you and me access to know many things about Him: His creation, His desires for us, and, most important, His Son. Are we reading and treasuring this precious gift?
“Let’s pursue Jesus relentlessly; he wants to be found. He may even join us along the journey.”
Possibly the greatest single impact of this self-educated man started on the floor of his Chicago church study as he would daily don his old prayer trousers and then, for some time, lay prostrate on the floor as he sought God.
God is presented to us not in ideas and arguments but in events and actions that involve each of us personally.
