Jesus is the object of our faith.   He is truly worthy of our faith. He is the door to our salvation and the immense blessings God has in store for us.  When we believed in Him and received Him as our Lord and Savior, we did so by faith.  By placing our faith in Christ, we received not only the blessings He has planned for us, but His very life. Before coming to Christ, we were dead spiritually. Paul explains in Ephesians 2:1, “Once you were dead, doomed forever because of yo

M y daughter spilled the beans about Santa.  She was in 2 nd grade and a group of girls were huddled on the playground talking (rapidly) about their Christmas wish lists.  One friend giggled her excitement about Santa’s visit on Christmas Eve.  My daughter felt she needed to set her straight.   “You know that Santa’s not real.”  She announced with stern authority. “Yes he is!” “No he’s not!” “Yes—.”  You get the idea.  Her friend had the last word, however. Just as the reces

Take a lesson from the ants… (Proverbs 6:6)   Our human efforts are so minuscule compared to the reaches of outer space. We are like ants trying to scale Mount Everest. After crawling over blades of grass and fallen twigs, the ants think they have traveled a great distance. But when their journey is compared to the distant mountaintop ahead, they have hardly begun.   Sometimes we as humans become so caught up in our own power that we forget how very limited we are. We are li