True Forgiveness

True Forgiveness by Justin Eggen is the third in a series of devotionals by the 2012 Grace Harbor Colombia Mission Team. I encourage you to find a quiet place and consider this powerful message.

"If You, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve You." Psalms 130:3-4

In these two verses, it speaks of sin and forgiveness. For Psalms 130:3 says "if you O Lord kept a record of sins, O Lord who could stand?" In this verse it tells us that if the Lord was to keep tally of all are sins, we would probably fall to our knees and maybe die. Everyone person sins. Sin is like an addiction, once you do it, it’s hard to stop. I’m not saying you need to live a perfect life because that is highly impossible. All I’m saying is you should sin less.

Dry Seasons

Our Monday Devotion comes to us from Member, Gabby Botts:

"I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!" Psalm 139:7

I feel compelled to write about the "dry seasons" that one will undoubtedly experience in life from time to time in the Christian walk. If anyone tries to seem "holier than thou" or whatnot and tell you that there aren’t such things as dry spells, and spout off some verse about how God is always with you (which is true by the way, but let me go on), they’re lying. I’m here to tell you there will be times when you don’t feel anything. There will be days, maybe weeks, months, etc, when you have doubts, when you just feel so dried up, and like God is busy with other things, other people, etc. Maybe you feel like you can’t be used. Maybe you’ll get so exasperated you feel like you’ve lost your beliefs. It’s okay.

God Hates Sin, but loves the Sinner?

"God Hates Sin, but loves the Sinner" by Gabby Botts is the second in a series of devotionals by the 2012 Grace Harbor Colombia Mission Team. I encourage you find a quiet place to read these words and then share the truth with a friend.

"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." 2 Timothy 4:3-4

Hello everyone! It’s Gabby :) I don’t know if you know, but I have a blog that I post on regularly, and I follow other bloggers. One thing that keeps popping up all over is the catchy phrase, "God hates the sin, but not the sinner." It never really bothered me until I recently reread today’s verses from 2nd Timothy. It opened up my eyes, and made me really question a lot, including this phrase!

Falling Sky

Grace Harbor is proud to present a series of devotions from the 2012 Colombia Mission Team members. In preparation for their summer trip to Colombia the team is studying, training and worshipping together frequently. One of their assignments is to submit a devotional for publication on the Grace Harbor website. Please join us in supporting each of them in prayer as God prepares their hearts to serve Him in Colombia.

Falling Sky by Heather Gent is the first in a series of devotionals by the 2012 Grace Harbor Colombia Mission Team. I encourage you to find a quiet place and watch this story unfold as Heather shares how God called her to become a member of the team.

"Give justice to the poor and the orphan; uphold the rights of the oppressed and destitute." Psalm 82:3

Several months ago I sat in church one Sunday morning and listened to our church's mission team coordinator talk about her trip to Medellin and Bogota in Columbia just weeks before. She talked about many things, both good and bad, but of them all I can only recall the story of heroin addiction and other abuse among children as young as six years old.