Tag Archives: Life

God Wants Us Holy

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5: It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate … Continue reading

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Learning About Nonsense

The Chicago Daily News reports of a lecture given which was pure and simple nonsense. The speaker was introduced as Dr. Myron L. Fox and given an ambiguous, high-sounding title to the audience. The master of ceremonies said that Dr. … Continue reading

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1 Peter 5:6 – A.B. Simpson

For Wednesday August 3, 2022: 1 PETER 5:6 1 Peter 5:6 (NKJV) Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. The pressure of hard places makes us value life. Every time our life is given back to us from … Continue reading

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Great Is The Lord!

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Reflecting With God 8/03/2022

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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Who Should Be Caged?

Detroit’s zoo director hired four new security guards—to protect the animals from man. In the past two years there, a baby Australian wallaby left the protection of its mother’s pouch and was stoned to death; a duck died with a … Continue reading

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Waiting Only Upon God – C.H. Spurgeon

For Tuesday August 2, 2022: WAITING ONLY UPON GOD Psalm 62:5 (NKJV) My soul, wait silently for God alone. We must mark God’s providence leading us; and then let us go. But he that goes before providence will be very … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 8/02/2022

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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Be Still and Know That I Am God!

Psalm 46:10: “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” (NKJV) “Stop striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, … Continue reading

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Christ’s Forgotten Mark

It is said that there was once a monk who prayed much that he might have the marks of the Lord upon his hands and feet. A vision was given him in which he was shown a mark on the … Continue reading

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We’ve Crucified The Holy Spirit – A.W. Tozer

For Monday August 1, 2022: WE’VE CRUCIFIED THE HOLY SPIRIT Acts 7:51 (NKJV) “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.” It is time for us to … Continue reading

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Knowledge of God’s Glory

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Reflecting With God 8/01/2022

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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The Bible and Vernacular Translation

*Pastor’s Note: There are certain things I just won’t debate because it doesn’t edify the Body of Christ. However, when I teach something to others that may appear controversial, I do so with the authority of the Word of God … Continue reading

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The Doctrine of Truth

The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, is a Christian devotional book first composed in Medieval Latin as De Imitatione Christi (c. 1418–1427). The devotional text is divided into four books of detailed spiritual instructions. The devotional approach of … Continue reading

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Christ and The Bible – John R. Rice – 7

John R. Rice (December 11, 1895 – December 29, 1980) Preacher … evangelist … revivalist … editor … counselor to the thousands … friend to millions—that was Dr. John R. Rice, whose accomplishments were nothing short of miraculous. Known as … Continue reading

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The Oneness Factor

For Sunday July 31, 2022: THE ONENESS FACTOR 1 Corinthians 12:13 (NKJV) For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. Not … Continue reading

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What Are “Signs of The Times?”

Pastor’s Note: The following excerpt is from the book I reviewed earlier in the month. Like the Apostle Paul told the Thessalonians, we SHOULD be comforting one another with the Scriptural prophecies that have been given us in God’s written … Continue reading

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Solomon As The Better Judge

When William Jennings Bryan went to call on the father of his prospective wife and seek the hand of his daughter in marriage, knowing the strong religious feeling of the father, he thought to strengthen his case by a quotation … Continue reading

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2 Corinthians 1:4 – Ole Hallesby

For Friday July 29, 2022: 2 CORINTHIANS 1:4 2 Corinthians 1:4 (NKJV) Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are … Continue reading

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