Author Archives: randscallawayffm

No one loves like God loves.  We love because God first loved us.  To know real love is to know God. All other love is manmade, manipulated, conditional and reversable.  God’s love is unchanging, unconditional, relentless, and irreversible.  God rescues … Continue reading →

God is and forever will be in control.  Evil is and will forever be repaid with evil by God who loves and leads His People back to Him, to His best life for them, to His love, care, protection, and … Continue reading →

As humans we are plagued with guilt in every part of our lives.  If you are not, then you have probably grown emotional callouses that don’t feel much of anything anymore.  Either way, it is a mournful place to live.  … Continue reading →

We rely on what we are told.  Right?!  Our parents’ words are the first we trust.  If our parents took us to church, we also learned to trust God.  Teachers of reading and writing were the next trustworthy adults in … Continue reading →

How easily impressed we are by the newest version of IPhone that is introduced for the “first time” each year!  How easily we are distracted by the newer and better appliance that “will change our lives.”  How tempted we are … Continue reading →

“Let’s sneak out without the counselors knowing tonight.”  We had a plan at church camp to be rebellious and not do what we were asked to do—sleep.  We wanted to party with each other without the grownups hanging around to … Continue reading →

Teenagers—gotta love ‘em!  As our parents loved us through the taunting teen years, we also love our kids and grandkids through these often exasperating years of growing and maturing.  Some grow up.  Some get older chronologically but stay the same … Continue reading →

We hear the message of God, are impressed by the message of salvation through Jesus, but living the message every day is on another level of believing.  Putting all our trust in God for all of life, not just the … Continue reading →

While in prayer this morning, before reading this passage, a thought came to me.  There is only One we can apply the words “never and always” to when talking to Him or about Him.  Humans do not fit this narrative … Continue reading →

There is no one like our God to pump life back into our being after being tested and tried through difficult circumstances that can bring us to the edge of death.  God’s life-giving power brings the pink back into our … Continue reading →