posted 9/30/2008

     No matter what you have done or who you are, God’s love for you will never stop because His love doesn’t depend on your actions, but on His character.  Paul, who wrote the book of Romans, knew this without a shadow of a doubt!  This was because, before he was a Christian, he would hunt down Christians to imprison them or have them put to death.  Then one day as Paul was on a journey to round up some more Christians to persecute, Jesus appeared to him and forgave him! Thus, Paul became God’s because of His love and grace. (1 Timothy 1:12-15)

     Romans 5:8 teaches us how Paul felt about God’s love, and God’s ability to save and change the worst of sinners.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. NASB^®

This week we are going to look at God’s everlasting and relentless love for us.

Course outline

• Introduction
• Lesson 1 - God's love in creation
• Lesson 2 - God's love and our sin
• Lesson 3 - God's love and the death of Jesus Christ
• Lesson 4 - God's love and the Holy Spirit
• Lesson 5 - Jesus Christ shows us God's love
• Lesson 6 - God is our loving Father
• Lesson 7 - God's love will never end
• Lesson 8

Change we can believe in!

posted 11/10/2008

     America just finished its presidential election.  I think it was the longest election cycle ever when counting the primaries.  Instead of a short campaign for president once every four years, it seems that candidates are almost running continuously.  Between you and me, if campaigning gets any longer, we might as well run a professional salesman.       

     The candidate that won this election for president was Obama.  His chant or slogan throughout his campaign was, “Change we can believe in”.  What struck me as odd is, he never really explained what change we can believe in was. Yet that didn’t seem to matter to the people who voted him into the office.  However, I am the type of gal who likes to know what is coming, without any surprises.  So I definitely like to know exactly how, what, when and why a change is going to happen and in what direction.  How about you?

     My question to you is, what change can you truly believe in?  In other words, who can you believe in to change your life and country the right way?  Jesus knew how limited and fickle men and women are, so in John 2:24 we are told, "Jesus… was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men." God’s Word is telling us, it is foolhardy to believe in any change that a person brings, because humans are finite. The right change can only come from our infinite God.   

The Lord says, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind…And whose heart turns away from the Lord. For he will be like a bush in the desert, And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,…Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord …For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit.  Jeremiah 17:5-8   NASB^®

Because of His Change, Gini

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