by James Metsger | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, VAST
Speaking the Truth in Love By James Metsger Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth (1 John 3:18) My kid was chasing a ball into a busy intersection the other day, cars speeding everywhere. I didn’t say anything. He had a smile on...
by James Metsger | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog, VAST
Love Has Legs By James Metsger But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in Him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed…(1 John 3:17-18) Talk is cheap, but love...
by James Metsger | Dec 1, 2020 | Blog, VAST
Costly Love By James Metsger By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. (1 John 3:16) Have you ever been loved? Has some knight in shining armor showed up at your doorstep on his trusty steed (or...
by James Metsger | Nov 24, 2020 | Blog, VAST
Practice Makes… By James Metsger Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness…Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as He is righteous (1 John 3:4; 7) Practice makes perfect. That’s a lie. Nothing could be further from the truth....
by James Metsger | Nov 3, 2020 | Blog, VAST
Who Does He Act Like? By James Metsger But we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” (1 John 3:2b) The first question my mother asks when a child is born is, “Who does he look like?” This always confuses me. Babies have a...
by James Metsger | Oct 6, 2020 | Blog, VAST
The Best is Yet to Come By James Metsger Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” (1 John 3:2) On a hot summer day in July I was walking my...
