Prior to taking a trip, my wife will often ask the rest of the family, “what are you looking forward to most about the trip?”   Responses have varied, depending on the ages of the kids at the time (seeing Mickey, riding this ride, seeing this place, eating this food, etc…), but a recent response made more…

Some glad morning when this life is o’re, I’ll fly away.  To a home on God’s celestial shore, I’ll fly away.  My grandparents on my father’s side and I were very close while I was growing up.  My grandfather preached in Victoria, Texas, which is only 30 minutes away from where I grew up, and more…

“He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, more…

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us more…

There is no greater blessing than that of being God’s child. As Christians, we are the recipients of the promise made to Abraham: “You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be more…