by Elaine Olsen | Jan 20, 2009 | family fun, living God's truth, peace, rest, theology, trust
For Nick … you were the missing piece of our snow day. We love you! “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 9, 2009 | christian perfection, living God's truth, peace, pilgrimage, rest
“This is what the LORD says: ‘Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” (Jeremiah 6:16). “If you write conviction,...
by Elaine Olsen | Dec 1, 2008 | eternity, grace, living God's truth, rest
“‘If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 12, 2008 | out of the mouths of babes, Raising Faith, rest
“Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on him, for God is our refuge. Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 29, 2008 | christian perfection, living God's truth, peace, rest
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do; Forgetting what is behind and...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 22, 2008 | living God's truth, peace, rest
“‘I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the...
