Looking to hear from God?  Here’s an insightful quote from Susan D. Hill from the book “Closer Than Your Skin.”

“The more you know the Bible, the more vocabulary God has to work with.”

Here is the passion of my heart… the gospel.  

I sing gospel music, not because it’s my favorite style of music because actually, it’s not, but because I believe in the gospel. 

The gospel is the good news that Jesus died for our sins.  He shed His precious blood so that we could be set free from that which has enslaved us, sin.  Paul identifies a list of sins, not an exhaustive one either, but nevertheless a list: sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, thieves, greedy ones, drunkards, slanderers, swindlers… but here me out now, when he’s done with that list he says something that is amazing! (more…)