Afflictions and the Word of God
“Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word. It was good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes” (Psalm 119:67 & 71). As Christians, God’s Word, The Holy Bible, is our rule for life. Its laws, its precepts, and its...
The Court Transcript
The Court Transcript
Firsthand Accounts
When I was thirteen years old, I was a member of Boy Scout Troop #62 in Southern Idaho. We met every Monday night in a rural Grange Hall. At one of those meetings we heard the firsthand account of Jim Whitaker, a world renown mountaineer who was the first American to...
Serve Series Part 4
Serve Series Part 4
The Opening of Spiritual Eyes
“ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe” Ephesians...
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Redefining God
“ Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ God created man in...
Roman
Roman
Marks of Christ Like Service
Marks of Christ Like Service
Top Shelf First
”What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:31-32). The verse quoted above is one that I have,...
Be Still
In the past week, I have read John Mark Comers The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. It seems as if overstimulation and a life of hurry blocks out our awareness of the unseen world. The Psalmist said, “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). The Hebrew...
Find Your Happy Place
Find Your Happy Place
Mark 15 – The Veil
Gaining Wisdom
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future” (Proverbs 19:20). For several decades, reading through the Proverbs once a month has been part of my morning devotional routine. Since there are thirty-one Proverbs, I simply read the...
No Substitution No Freedom
No Substitution No Freedom
Mark 1/22/2023
Mark 1/22/2023
Speaking the Truth in Love
”And Christ gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of...
Mark 15
Mark 15