God's Glory Church

“So that you behave properly toward the Lord in all agreeableness.” — Colossians 1:10 As I prepared for my mother’s funeral service, I prayed for the right words to describe her years through the “hyphen” engraved between her date of birth and death. I reflected on the good times and the not so good times (…)

“Sing to the Lord, His saints.” — Psalm 29:5 Susie cried as she sat outside the hospital’s intensive care unit. Waves of paralyzing fear washed over her. Her two-month-old baby’s tiny lungs were filled with fluid, and doctors said they were doing everything they could to save the infant, but made no guarantees. According to (…)

“We love Him because He first loved us.” — 1 John 4:19 When Elsa was diagnosed with cancer, she was ready to go to heaven to be with Jesus. However, the woman recovered, although the disease made her immobile. Elsie wondered why God had spared her life. “What good can I do? – she asked (…)

“Even if you wash yourself… your guilt will be a stain before My face, says the Lord God.” — Jeremiah 2:22 “Oh, no!” – I exclaimed sadly, opening the dryer to get the laundry. My white shirt was covered in ink stains, like a leopard’s skin. I forgot to take the fountain pen out of (…)

“I will not leave you, nor will I depart from you!” — Hebrews 13:5 Thousands of people prayed for Pastor Ed Dobson when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic sclerosis in 2000. Many believed that when they prayed in faith for healing, God would answer immediately. After 12 years of battling a disease that had caused (…)

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” — Proverbs 18:21 Leaders of educational institutions rarely admit their guilt when a tragedy occurs within their walls. However, a year after the suicide of a 17-year-old student, the prestigious school admitted that it “tragically failed to protect him.” The student was constantly bullied, and (…)

“We have this treasure in clay vessels.” — 2 Corinthians 4:7 His back is hunched, he walks with a stick, but six decades of spiritual shepherding testify to the fact that he relies on God – the source of his strength. In 1993, Pastor William Barber was diagnosed with a disease that causes vertebrae to (…)

“They will raise their wings, like those eagles, they will run – and they will not tire.” — Isaiah 40:31 A pair of eagles built a giant nest in a tree a few miles from my house. Soon the huge birds had eaglets. They cared for their chicks together until one of the adult eagles (…)

“Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.” — Exodus 7:7 Two Texas grandmothers recently became a media sensation by traveling around the world in eighty days at the age of eighty-one. Best friends traveling the world for twenty-three years, visited all seven continents. They started in (…)

“A faithful word: if we died together with Him, then we will live together with Him!” — 2 Timothy 2:11 For more than two centuries, the first hymn in the Methodist songbook was “Oh, if I could praise You with a thousand mouths.” Written by Charles Wesley and originally titled “On the Anniversary of Conversion,” (…)