Those heartfelt words offer a glimpse into Screven’s soul—this man who, at age 25, lost his beloved fiancée to drowning the night before they were to be married. Grief stricken, Screven moved to Canada, where he fell in love a second time. Astonishingly, that fiancé also died—from pneumonia—soon before they were to marry.
The two tragedies forever changed Screven’s life. But what could such heartbreak teach believers about friendship with God—especially when many of us struggle in our fast-paced world to find true connections?
Paging through history on Screven, I almost missed the lesson his life longs to share.
After all, he started
We’ve always got a Friend, one who is loyal, good and true, forever. Amen.
Colossians 2:6-7
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Thoughts on This Verse....
Jesus is our center! He is the hub around which we turn. Rather than trying to add on to the truth of Jesus, we must learn to accept it and trust it in child-like faith. But that child-like faith must be nourished and grown. As Jesus remains our central focus and our hearts remain thankful to God for his grace, we will that our faith is strengthened and that Jesus is more real than ever.
Quotes from Billy Graham
- I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
- Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
Ravi Zacharias
“Spirituality with an underpinning of pantheistic beliefs is portrayed as being serene, innocuous, all-embracing, mystical, and wonderful…The world is now being constructed on reclaimed land from the sea of faith in which we seek common values without finding common reasons from which those values stem. Yet the deeper one probes into the reasoning, the more one has to wonder whether this disjunction between values and reasons will sooner or later take away from us the water of life.”
Jesus
- Today, let us realize our Big God is bigger than our problems.
- He is bigger than any opposition.
The two tragedies forever changed Screven’s life. But what could such heartbreak teach believers about friendship with God—especially when many of us struggle in our fast-paced world to find true connections?
Paging through history on Screven, I almost missed the lesson his life longs to share.
After all, he started
We’ve always got a Friend, one who is loyal, good and true, forever. Amen.
Colossians 2:6-7
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Thoughts on This Verse....
Jesus is our center! He is the hub around which we turn. Rather than trying to add on to the truth of Jesus, we must learn to accept it and trust it in child-like faith. But that child-like faith must be nourished and grown. As Jesus remains our central focus and our hearts remain thankful to God for his grace, we will that our faith is strengthened and that Jesus is more real than ever.
Quotes from Billy Graham
- I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
- Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
Ravi Zacharias
“Spirituality with an underpinning of pantheistic beliefs is portrayed as being serene, innocuous, all-embracing, mystical, and wonderful…The world is now being constructed on reclaimed land from the sea of faith in which we seek common values without finding common reasons from which those values stem. Yet the deeper one probes into the reasoning, the more one has to wonder whether this disjunction between values and reasons will sooner or later take away from us the water of life.”
Jesus
- Today, let us realize our Big God is bigger than our problems.
- He is bigger than any opposition.
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