Deeply Disappointed - Matthew 10:34-3
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a...
View ArticleMST & Sweet Imagination - 2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to...
View ArticleFor A Limited Time Only - Luke 13:22-24
Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?” He said to them, “Make every effort to...
View ArticleLet Every Heart Prepare Him Room - Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! - Psalm 139:23-24 The song ‘Joy To the World,’...
View ArticleWhat Proceeds From The Heart - Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. - Proverbs 4:23 Scripture tells us many things about the human heart, both good and bad. But it’s the neutral comments that...
View ArticleA Miracle Everyday - Hebrews 2:4
. . . while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. - Hebrews 2:4 Over the years, many of us have...
View ArticleWould You Rather I Lied To You? - 1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. - 1 John 1:8 “Who has sinned today?”If you want to throw your next get-together into turmoil, just ask that question of...
View ArticleDoctrines Of Men? - 1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands...
View ArticleA Warning Against The World - 2 Corinthians 6:14-15
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion...
View ArticleWhen The Gospel Is Rejected - Matthew 10:14
And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.- Matthew 10:14 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your...
View ArticleThe Fruit Of Babel - Genesis 11:3-4
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a...
View ArticleDoing The Impossible - Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” - Matthew 19:26 I have struggled over the years with my inability to show my Christian love...
View ArticleThe Promised House - John 14:2-3
“In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to...
View ArticleTetelestai - John 19:30
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. - John 19:30 Christians get their soteriology wrong the minute they say, “We are...
View ArticleGive Us A King - 1 Samuel 8:6
But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. - 1 Samuel 8:6 There is an old saying that warns, “Be careful what you wish for...you just might...
View ArticleMadness! - Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” - Romans 9:20 It is incumbent upon all true Christians to speak out boldly...
View ArticleThe Petrine Fear Factor - Matthew 10:32-33
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.- Matthew...
View ArticleWhere Christ Is Lord His Word Is Truth - 1 John 4:6
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. - 1 John 4:6 I drive an hour plus each...
View ArticleWhat Kind Of Love - Matthew 27:22
Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” - Matthew 27:22 The question is simple enough. I don’t mean bleeding in the sense...
View ArticleReservations Only - Matthew 25:34
Then the King will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.- Matthew 25:34 There are only two ways...
View ArticleFault Is Best Viewed In A Mirror - Psalm 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. - Psalm 66:18 There is a constant hum among unbelievers, near-believers, and weak believers about the efficacy of prayer....
View ArticleForsaking Anger And Wrath - Psalm 37:8-9
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. - Psalm 37:8-9 Other than...
View ArticleNo ‘Work-Around’ - John 15:14
You are my friends if you do what I command you. - John 15:14 In recent times, there has been growing failure to rightly exegete the Bible in a God-honoring way. What I mean by that is many people,...
View ArticleTrue To This Day - Luke 2:34
And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed ...” - Luke 2:34 The account of...
View ArticleTransforming Identity - 1 Corinthians 12:12-14
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks,...
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