Bible Gems

Encouraging, Powerful, Uplifting

Freedom from the Past

9 months ago   -  9 comments

Have you ever felt deep regret and remorse for something you’ve done in the past? Have you felt the helplessness of not being able to change the past? How can we be freed from these things? Let’s see what the Bible has to say! No matter what our past has been, we can find freedom from it. In the book of Romans, the Bible says that we can experience “newness of life”. “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up fr...

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Sorrow, Grief and Wisdom

3 years ago   -  20 comments

What could these things have in common; sorrow, grief and wisdom? Sorrow and grief is something we try to avoid and wisdom is something we all desire. Let's dig deep into God's word to discover some surprising gems of truth on this subject. Of all the Bible writers, Solomon seemed to have the most to say about wisdom. Let's start our journey in Ecclesiastes chapter 1. "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." - Eccle...

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Free to Fear God?

3 years ago   -  21 comments

In the last gem, we saw that we as humans have many needs, and that only in our creator and redeemer can those needs be truly satisfied. We saw that when God fills our life with his presence, our fears are removed and our needs met. But now we're digging into this idea, that we should fear God. "To fear God" you say! That sounds like an oxymoron, how can that be when God is love? And when the Bible says: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear ...

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Overcoming Insecurity

4 years ago   -  19 comments

Insecurity and fear is something we've all had to battle with. Perhaps as a child, we feared being alone in the dark, imagining scary monsters around every dark corner! As the years passed by these scary monsters took different names, like failure, rejection or betrayal. God created human beings with many needs. From what I've observed, these needs unmet, result in insecurity and fear. For example, consider our basic need for food. Unmet, it results in fear of hunger and starvation. Whilst ...

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A Way of Escape

4 years ago   -  5 comments

To the battered, tempest-tossed Christian, a loving God gives this promise: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it]. " - 1. Corinthians 10:13 No temptation will ever come that God hasn't weighed, measured, and allowed. In every temptation, no matter how difficult it seems, He has provi...

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Who is Your God?

4 years ago   -  21 comments

I've never met a Christian who says they don't love Jesus. All Christians say "I Love Jesus". Yet, sometimes I wonder if Jesus is really their God. According to the Bible, how do we determine who or what is really our God? Let's travel back in time to the days of Moses. That great man of the old testament who was God's instrument in leading the people of Israel out of Egypt. After Moses fled from Egypt as a younger man, he spent 40 years in the wilderness. At the end of which the...

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Why Jesus Came

4 years ago   -  24 comments

Why did Jesus come to earth as a man? Why did He allow Himself to suffer so much pain and humiliation? To redeem us from our sins, I hear you say. Yes! Absolutely, but there's a deeper significance to why He came. In John chapter 17, Jesus prays a most beautiful prayer to His heavenly father. "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, t...

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