Posts from December 2025 (Page 3)

Read Hebrews 6:16-20 I hope it rains tomorrow. I hope I get an A on my test. I hope I don’t gain weight over the holidays. I hope I get a good job with great pay. I hope someone gives me 10 million dollars. Hope. I used to think hope was just wishful thinking—nothing special or helpful or particularly spiritual. Until I lost all hope. In February of 2013, while I was going through a bad bout of SAD (Seasonal…

Read 1 Timothy 1:1, 15-17 “But for that very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience…” (1 Timothy 1:16) In today’s text, the apostle Paul clearly states his identity: “I am the worst (of sinners)” (v. 15). Paul knew the life he had lived prior to his conversion; he knew the gravity of his sins. He knew his identity: a sinner in need of God’s patient mercy…