February 1, 2014. I have successfully posted once a day for a full month! Thank you all who are encouraging me and reading my posts. I hope they have been a blessing. “‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these…
Tag: daily devotion
Stumbling blocks.
January 31, 2014. What is a stumbling block? If you have been in religious company long and topics of opinion and preference have come up, chances are you have heard this word. “Don’t be a stumbling block for your brother.” But what is a stumbling block? That is the topic we are going to deal…
Through us, O Lord, mankind save.
January 30, 2014. “‘Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not…
Parable of the Talents
January 29, 2014. I was supposed to give a lesson tonight at church, however, due to the icy roads here, we have decided it too dangerous to hold service. In light of this fact, I have decided to give a brief synopsis of what I was going to say (and what I will talk about…
As white as snow.
January 28, 2014. It’s snowing! Classes are cancelled! (This may not seem like a big deal, but this amount of snow in Chattanooga pretty much shuts the town down…). I decided for today’s post, I would address a scriptural allusion to snow and contemplate the beauty that the Lord has bestowed upon the earth simply…
Three promises of Jesus.
January 27, 2014. “‘Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or…
What is truth?
January 26, 2014. There are many paths that man may take– all that will either bring good or harm. Yet each in his own path will find no alarm. There are many thinkers amongst the sons of men– ideas are woven and thoughts are formed. Yet to each clings his own, with others scorned. “What…
No tears in heaven.
January 25, 2014. Last night I had a dream where I was at my house with some friends from the CSC (you know how settings get all mixed up in dreams), and we were hanging out in my driveway. The neighbors had a group of people over and they got into a circle and started…
Searching for truth.
January 24, 2014. There are two things you never talk about with someone who may have a differing viewpoint than you if you want to get along: religion and politics; when you break it down, really it is just religion, as political stances are usually rooted in some form of religion, whether or not you…
Hallelujah to the King of kings.
January 23, 2014. Praise be to the Lord, ruler of heaven, commander of heavenly host, savior to the once lost. Amen. Glory and honor and power be ascribed to his magnificent name. The Lord of haven that has shown in infinite mercy to the ends of the earth, on the just and the unjust. “Hallelujah!”…
The fields are white for harvest.
January 22, 2014. “Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother, In the morning bright and fair? Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother, In the heat of the noonday’s glare?” Last night, Craig gave a good lesson– a hard lesson– at devo encouraging us to spread the gospel, as this is…
“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
January 21, 2014. “Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You…
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