Remember the Wonder of Christmas

Excerpt from Why the Butterfly? Rightly Remembering Jesus During this hectic time, take a few minutes to  pause and reflect on the magnitude of God’s mercy and grace. His gift of sacrifice didn’t start at the cross. It was predestined from before the foundation of the...

Is your heart clean? Psalm 51

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  Psalm 51 is often called “The Repenter’s Psalm.”  In this psalm, King David pleads for...

Where is your glory?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them. by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.  (Galatians 6:14) The cross was a...

What makes you cry?

If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Luke 19:41-42  Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your...

Prepare to Die!

If our resources have blessed you, please share them.by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment!” Hebrews 9:27 This is a somber thought.  Life moves quickly and none of us know the moment...

Three Groans

If our resources have blessed you, please share them.by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Do you feel pain that causes you to groan?   No surprise! Creation Groans Romans 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until...