I Will Not Forget You!

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter that Sheila wrote for the book.

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast

    and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget,

    I will not forget you!

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See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;

    your walls are ever before me.  (Is. 49:`15-16)

A true story: Two-day-old Carly was lying contentedly in her hospital “cradle” with her sleeping mother nearby, exhausted from the birth ordeal. When her mother awakened, she cast a sleepy gaze toward her baby. Her eyes widened in horror. Panic rose. Her heart began to pound rapidly. Carly was gone! Her bed was empty.

I Will Sustain You

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter that I wrote for the book.

"Listen to me, O house of Jacob,

        all you who remain of the house of Israel,

    you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,

        and have carried since your birth.

  Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he,

        I am he who will sustain you.

    I have made you and I will carry you;

        I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

                                                                                  Isaiah 46:3-4

Those of you reading this book surely represent many age groups. Some of you are still in your youth and can hardly imagine ever growing old. Even if getting old seems like something very far off, think about this: In some way life is not always going to be as it is now. You are going to experience changes and some of them will be a bit unnerving. You may not like to think about it, but some of you who have been healthy will get sick.

If You Seek Me...You Will Find Me

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter written by Jeff Chacon.

God is merciful. He is truly the God of the second chance, and the third, and the fourth, and God delivered to me another of his very precious promises, a promise that is ever so precious when it is needed ever so badly:

If You Forgive Others

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter written by Roger Lamb.

The need to forgive others is incredibly real. Most of us grow up learning to be disillusioned with promises—especially promises to forgive. We both forgive and ask for forgiveness, thinking that we have buried the hatchet. But just a single fit of rage later, we quickly reach for the handle of the hatchet again. It may be the handle to one or one hundred past hurts that we sling at the person who has committed the new offense. We have all been on the receiving end of that hatchet, and it is not a pretty sight. And it does not feel good. That is the definition of dysfunctional relationships: the inability to solve conflict and forgive.

The Power of a Promise

For the next few weeks we will post excerpts adapted from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is by yours truly.

Disappointments with employers, politicians, those who owe us money and maybe even family members have made some of us highly skeptical about promises. Often promises have come to represent efforts to pacify us at the moment. They can be easily made because the promiser does not usually have to fulfill the promise immediately. But if we allow our disillusionment about man and his promises to color our view of the promises of God, we make a terrible mistake. 

The Cross - Part 2

Today we are reprinting a final excerpt from the 1993 book, Thirty Days at the Foot of the Cross.  

"The cross puts everything to the test," wrote Martin Luther. How much more powerfully and righteously we will live if we learn to ask in every situation: "What does the cross mean here?"

The Cross - Part 1

Today and next Monday we reprint two final excerpts from the 1993 book, Thirty Days at the Foot of the Cross. These final two segments were written by Tom.

 Before the cross we stand amazed. How can one event be so rich in meaning? How can something once so repugnant and loathsome now point to solutions to every human problem? Only through the working of God could it be so.