by Nate Stevens | May 3, 2018 | Christian Living
As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person. (Proverbs 27:19, NLT) Does your heart align with what you want people to believe about you? The “heart” is much different than a perception or projection. It refers to a person’s...
by Nate Stevens | Apr 20, 2018 | Christian Living
I am the vine, you are the branches. Without Me you can do nothing. (John 15:5, NKJV) I would love it if my morning coffee stayed perpetually hot. Or at least until I drank it. It’s a fact of life (and the laws of thermodynamics tend to agree) that we generally cannot...
by Nate Stevens | Apr 4, 2018 | Christian Living
I (God) have removed my protection and my peace from them—taken away my loving-kindness and my mercies. (Jeremiah 16:5, TLB / parenthesis added) Yes, God gives bountiful blessings and favor; yet, He also removes. Job lost everything in one day, then remarked, “The...
by Nate Stevens | Nov 7, 2017 | Christian Living
Do not quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19 ) I awoke unusually refreshed, and the daylight seemed brighter than normal. I stretched comfortably, enjoying my sheet’s softness and warmth. Then panic set in as I realized I had overslept—on a workday.Snatching my...
by Nate Stevens | Sep 14, 2017 | Christian Living
Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful (Mark 4:18-19). Is something choking your spiritual life? In the...
by Nate Stevens | Sep 8, 2017 | Christian Living
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:1-2) The little bird grew up in the...
