by Janina Marie Rivera | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
“In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”—Luke 15:10 I remember one morning reading my Bible and asking God why the angels rejoiced in Heaven when one sinner repented. What was the reason...
by Janina Marie Rivera | Mar 6, 2017 | Blog
Many times, we think of God’s love for us as dependent on our behavior. We make a mistake, or we sin, and the thought comes to us: God probably does not want to love us right now. He might, but maybe not that much. This is deadly thinking. The Bible says that God’s...
by Selina | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog
All humans desperately crave it and even need it to survive. And what is it? Purpose. The reason we get up in the morning. The thing that keeps us running. It is our reason to live and to be. We all have one. For some it may be a career we have dreamed about since we...
by Selina | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
Oh, if we could all be this way. Unselective Love. No prerequisites. No standard to meet. No dress code. Nothing. Just pure, unbiased, love. Unselective love doesn’t reject people based on first appearances. It doesn’t reject people even after they know them good...
by Selina | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
F. Buechner, ““If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, … we would know that the Kingdom of God is what we all of us hunger for above all other things even when we don’t know its name or realize that it’s what we’re starving to death for....
by Selina | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 “7 So to keep me from becoming conceited…a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said...