This month Alancetotheheart is two years old. Wow what a journey it has been. 342 posts later I can say much has changed and much has stayed the same. That sounds pretty cliché I know but let me see if I can explain. When I started writing I felt like the “great defender of God’s…
I got a note from a dear friend about some teaching she heard. I pray my “intense” emotion doesn’t make it through ether space. My keyboard can be replaced. But I wanted to defeat some lies. Jesus came to replace religion not become part of it. He came to fulfill the Law of Moses which…
In the last post I talked about how knowing what God says, thinks, feels, cherishes and writes down about you is how we come to know Him as He knows us. Remember He is God and knows everything. So His knowing us isn’t knowledge like we understand. He isn’t learning facts about you. He already knows…
Gal 4:23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. (ESV) Heb 11:11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him…
Our most basic desire as a human is to survive. That is normal. God gave us that desire so we wouldn’t fall off of cliffs and run out in front of trucks on the highway. The enemy must have known that about us. He must have known that when we were poisoned by the bad…
This is the 100th post of alancetotheheart! It started with balloons and this painting by my daughter (she is awesome): Since then there have been 99 balloon rides of discovery. I hope you have enjoyed the journey. Here are a couple of stats for those that like that kind of stuff. This post has been…
Slavery is a life of no options. Self-life is slavery. Before the cross all you knew was selfish with a healthy dose of Sin input. Anything was OK for us. We had a conscience as a product of wrong fruit ingestion but it didn’t matter. The thought of being without something was much more powerful than…
