Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
The Berean Principle
And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth. Acts 17:11 NLT The mature Believer sits humbly under...
Called to Overcome
Prelude God calls us to be overcomers. To live in the victory Christ has already won over the world, the flesh, and the devil. The Christian life is not passive coexistence with sin. By the power of the Holy Spirit, we are called to put sin to death, resist the devil,...
A Prayer Of Adoration And Praise To God In The Morning
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.” The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who...
Who Bore The Blame?
I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Job 42:5-6 Love (III)Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guilty of dust and sin.But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slackfrom...
The Order Of Things
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments." John 14:15 No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Jesus explicitly establishes the order: first love (fellowship), then keeping His...
Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice
“The Lord has told us what is good: do justice, hesed love, and walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 (Note 1) (Note2) As Christians it is essential that we distinguish biblical justice from the contemporary political use of the term social justice. Some believers use...
All Manner Of Things Will Be Well
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 KJV Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it is not the end.
Death And Spiritual Death
“Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.“ John 5:24 NASB When Jesus speaks of death, He distinguishes physical death from spiritual...
The Light
"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” John 3:19 NKJV To say that God turns away from sinners is like saying that the sun hides from the blind. The Light has...
Beauty For Ashes
The Prophet Isaiah circa 700 BC: "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, therefore hath the Lord anointed me: He hath sent me to preach good tidings unto the poor, to bind up the broken hearted, to preach liberty to the captives, and to them that are bound, the...
The Horrible Trinity
I saw some naive young men, and one in particular who lacked common sense. He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman, strolling down the path by her house. It was at twilight, in the evening, as deep darkness fell. Proverbs 7:7-9 NLT He who would...
Denying Christ
But Peter said to Him, “Lord, I am ready to go with You both to prison and to death!” But Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.” Luke 22:33-34 And a slave woman, seeing Peter as he sat in...
The Confession Of A Bondservant
The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time and forever. Psalm 121:7-8 I bind myself today: To the power of God to guide me. To the might of God to uphold me. To the wisdom of...
At The Baptismal
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly...
Selah
For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. 2 Chronicles 16:9 Almighty Lord, our God, whose eyes are in every place beholding the evil and the good, and who sees not only...
The Word Of God
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring...
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
You are My friends if you do what I command you. John 15:14 NASB As it relates to our friendship with God, each of us is as close to God as we choose to be. We have been invited into the presence of the King of the Universe. He has not disdained us. We are invited...
Rejoice
This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
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