Unless Christ returns first, we will all face death. Experience teaches us this truth. Death is even more certain than taxes. Our experience on earth, however, cannot tell us what […]
Luke 8:9-17: Becoming the Infant
October 23, 2016 by
How can you spot a saint? What makes him different from everyone else? For starters, the word “saint” means “holy person.” So, what do you do? You examine how someone […]
Luke 18:1-8: Persistence in Prayer
October 16, 2016 by
Oh, how discouragement settles in our bones. We quit when details don’t go our way. We leave when life gets uncomfortable. The pain stabs us, our lungs burn, our legs […]
Ruth 1:1-19a: A Faith Within is a Faith Without
October 9, 2016 by
“In those days, there was no king in Israel. Each did whatever looked right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). So reveals the last verse in the book of Judges, […]
Luke 17:1-10, Acts 2:42-47: Faith
October 2, 2016 by
What is faith? What is its source? How does faith become yours? Do you create it within yourself, or does someone give it to you? How we answer changes the […]
1 King 17:7-16, Mark 12:38-44, 1 Timothy 6:17-19: Christ’s Stewardship for Us
September 25, 2016 by
The problem with the money in our lives is not the money, but how we handle it. We think, “Now if only we had more money, we could live!” We […]
1 Timothy 2:1-15: She will be saved through the bearing of a Child
September 18, 2016 by
Scripture contains strange stuff to our ears: “Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I do not allow a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a […]
Hebrews 13:7-17: Spiritual Remembering
August 28, 2016 by
How ironic. The day before I leave to care for my parents because they suffer from Alzheimer’s, the book of Hebrews warns us against a spiritual Alzheimer’s. For the Christian […]
Luke 13:22-30: Are YOU Saved?
August 21, 2016 by
Convinced of being correct, with themselves as judge of right and wrong, Jewish men readied themselves for the fight. Against whom were they fighting? Other Jews. Those from the School […]
Luke 12.49-53, Hebrews 11:24-12:3: Eternal Peace
August 14, 2016 by
“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.” We don’t expect such crazy-sounding talk from Jesus, the Prince of Peace, do we? […]
