looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured Mirroring the presence of God in the Garden of Eden and foreshadowing the end-time city of God, God the Son Jesus, God’s Son, is forsaken (Matthew 27:46) in order that he might create a city called “Not Forsaken

May he stir our hearts and the hearts of our children so they’ll long to be there with Him. We will be with Him, singing His praises forever!

The people want “this bread always,” but there is a disconnect between their longing and true need (v life-giving and soul-satisfying nourishment that is offered through coming to Him and believing in Him as the Son Not long after this encounter, Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection would provide a solution to the

We see an echo of these truths in Mary’s Song of Praise, “And his mercy is for those who fear him from

When my wife was pregnant with our son some years ago, she was carrying a pile of cushions, lost her After an anxious visit to the emergency room, we found that Susan and our unborn son were still safe Fighter Verse memory verses every weekday morning and make regular use of memorization through the songs

Fighter Verse memory verses every weekday morning and make regular use of memorization through the songs

Most of the time the solution is simple: We sing Psalm 56:3-4 together. Scripture memory plays a pivotal role in their parenting and homeschooling as they sing, write, and discuss

The glory of God will be so overwhelmingly satisfying that the horrors of a long illness and a painful verses I’ve met dozens of people going through extraordinary suffering—disease, death of children, long-term So, whether in our living or in our dying (no matter how long and hard that process might be), point

³²He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously God gave his own Son for us, and thus we know that He will give us everything we need. We meditate on the cross and we reason this way: “Since God sent his Son to die to rescue me from my Those of us who are parents long to bless our children, and we are sinners. We long for nothing more than for our children to be happy and holy.

The Son had one concern: to always do what was pleasing to the Father. The Son did not grasp at glory. The Son had no desire for glory apart from the Father, for there is no glory apart from the Father. The Mind Jesus Wants Us to Have This is the mind Jesus wants us to have: to long for and live for the

account, how, or by what means, I was thus convinced, not in the least imagining at the time, nor a long in respect to the doctrine of God’s sovereignty, from that day to this; so that I scarce ever have found

But this doesn’t mean the books we read have to be long. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing Sometimes this “sentence or two” is found in a short book.