“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 March 19, 2025 There are different kinds of courage. There is battlefield courage. Joshua and Israel needed this as they faced the challenges of […]
“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” Hebrews 9:27 March 17, 2025 Reenactments of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ can be dangerous. Those who watch this in a variety of movies may become anesthetized to the gravity of what happened in Christ’s death. According to the
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“In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.” Esther 3:7 March 12, 2025 It has long
“Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.” Mark 13:33 March 10, 2025 A time change, as we have recently experienced, can be a challenge to needed sleep. Four times in Mark 13:32-37 Jesus tells His disciples to “stay awake.” He used a parable about an absent house
“He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Hebrews 1:3 March 7, 2025 “Chance, luck, accident, fortune, fate, karma.”
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“He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Hebrews 1:3 March 5, 2025 God came to this earth to
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“But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.” Hebrews 1:2 March 3, 2025 The book of Hebrews is incomparable in its exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Hebrew Christian needed a bigger Christ. Jesus
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“But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.” Hebrews 1:2 February 28, 2025 How would you like to be an heir to a new world where everything is alright? In a single sentence to the
“Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers.” Psalm 64:2 February 26, 2025 The presence of evil can paralyze our thoughts. Fear can do terrible damage to our thinking if we let it. That is why we must have, in the words of Derek Kidner, “the good sense of
“You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah” Psalm 32:7 February 24, 2025 It seems that a generation of young people are looking for a “safe place.” They are wearing their fears on their sleeves. But the truth is that everyone outside of
