Mateo Arias

From Israel to Babylon The wilderness. Throughout the bible and even in our own lives we see God send people to a wilderness season. He uses this time to filter our hearts, souls, and minds so that we may be fully turned to Him. Think about it: the Israelites travelling through the wilderness after being delivered from Egypt headed to the Promised Land, David constantly fleeing from Saul for about 13 years, Paul in Arabia after encountering Jesus, etc. We need to accept it; wilderness...

God the Father and gentleness. You know what’s hard to grasp about that sentence? We usually don’t associate gentleness with fathers (and even sometimes mothers). I don’t know why but growing up one of the most ideal prototypes of a great father was Vito Corleone from the Godfather. The patriarch of the Corleone family. Sure he oversaw a huge mafia family and at a snap of his fingers could get someone killed instantly, but he loved his family, had a (somewhat) moral code when conducting...

“God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good.” Whether raised in church or new to it all, whatever ethnicity or culture you...