The Lord said to Satan, ‘Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger’ (Job 1:12).
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Sun shines on hearts of gold
A series of ‘God-incidences’ has turned a Lutheran farming family’s surplus hay paddock and 30,000 sunflower seeds into a golden field of hope for children with congenital heart disease in South Australia.
Holiness is a big deal
Because you did not trust in me enough to honour me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them (Numbers 20:12).
I’ve never liked tests
Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son (Genesis 22:12).
Are you trying to tempt me?
For forty days he was tempted by the devil (Luke 4:2).
Where do you find refuge?
I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust’ (Psalm 91:2).
