by Debbie Schwab | Mar 20, 2015 | Weekly Words
There is a fundamental flaw in our search for happiness. We think that once we have what we want, we will be grateful and satisfied; but we can look around and see plenty of people who have enough to be thankful and aren’t. Gratitude does not come from satisfaction....
by Debbie Schwab | Mar 6, 2015 | Weekly Words
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. 1 Peter 2.16-17 This week we looked at the story of the Rich Young Ruler, the man who was not...
by Debbie Schwab | Feb 27, 2015 | Weekly Words
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are...
by Debbie Schwab | Feb 19, 2015 | Weekly Words
By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period of time in a dream world. He does not abandon us to those rapturous experiences and lofty moods that come over us like a dream. God is not a God of emotions, but the God of truth. Only that...
by Debbie Schwab | Feb 12, 2015 | Weekly Words
In my wife at home I have a lovelier adornment, one that God has given me and adorned with His word beyond the others, even though she may not have a beautiful body or may have other failings. Though I may look over all the women in the world, I cannot find any about...
by Debbie Schwab | Feb 5, 2015 | Weekly Words
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must...
