by MJR | Aug 21, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful...
by MJR | Aug 20, 2024 | Genuine Hope
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. Hebrews 11:8 A week and a half ago, Patrina and I set off on a journey to places we had never visited before. We...
by MJR | Aug 19, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume. Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is...
by MJR | Aug 16, 2024 | Genuine Hope
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his...
by MJR | Aug 15, 2024 | Genuine Hope
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that...
by MJR | Aug 14, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. James 1: 17 It was a night I would not easily forget. Several years ago I sat in a room with a dozen men and listened...
