Aug 29, 2024 | Wednesday
I will come back to our scripture in a few minutes – after we start with an illustration. Let’s say that you are a highly skilled college athlete. You could pick any sport and become a star player. After some consideration, you’ve chosen to play professional...
Aug 22, 2024 | Wednesday
Before coming back to this opening scripture, let’s begin with a word or two about cousins. It has been said that we can choose our friends, but we can’t choose our relatives. Perhaps you were born into a family with a couple siblings and another brother or two...
Aug 15, 2024 | Wednesday
This is our third lesson in a brief study of faithfulness. In our last message we considered the faithfulness of the Lord. Over and over again we are told such things as: “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”...
Aug 8, 2024 | Wednesday
I have seen more than 27,000 days during my short lifetime. Every one of them followed a period of darkness which I have called “night.” The succession of night and day, night and day, has been throughly consistent throughout my life. In fact, that succession has been...
Jul 18, 2024 | Wednesday
Probably all of us have heard messages from these words of the Lord Jesus – perhaps more than one. Why should we have another look? Well, I believe that it is the Lord will for us tonight. Monday, as Judy and I were having our devotions, these words came up, and the...
Jul 11, 2024 | Wednesday
Let’s think for a few minutes about “meditation.” We could have a lesson about meditating on the subject of “thinking.” Or we could meditate about “meditation.” But rather than these, tonight I will only share a few thoughts on the subject of meditation. And perhaps...
Jul 4, 2024 | Wednesday
For the sake of a short lesson, I’d like to use Israel while in the wilderness as an allegory of the Christian life. Now – when you picture that forty-year national meandering, do you picture that “wilderness” as a “desert?” If you do, you need to understand that is...
Jun 27, 2024 | Wednesday
It makes perfect sense if we think about it in one way, and then it is ridiculous if looked at differently. I’m talking about the fact that several sections of the inspired Word of God were written to individuals. It is easy to understand why the Holy Spirit spoke to...
Jun 20, 2024 | Wednesday
A few minutes ago we sang Ruth Caye Jones’ hymn, “In Times like These.” In times like these you need a Saviour, and in times like these you need the Bible. In times like these you need an anchor which can grip the solid rock, the Lord Jesus Christ. Ruth Jones, born in...
Jun 13, 2024 | Wednesday
I am not a artist; I can’t draw accurately, and can’t paint. I even have a hard time painting the walls in my house. I have a hard time keeping my crayons between the lines. But I am surrounded by artists, and our house is filled with their original work – from...
Jun 6, 2024 | Wednesday
Judy and I are “old school” when it comes to many areas of our finances. Some people might simplify that and just say that we are “old.” Whatever – each week I personally take the check our treasurer gives me and I deposit it. I don’t take a picture of it and email it...
May 30, 2024 | Wednesday
The Lord Jesus was just beginning His earthly ministry. Matthew 3 ended with His baptism and His Father’s approval, emphasized with the declaration: “THIS is my beloved Son, in whom I am WELL pleased.” Our chapter begins with the battle between Jesus and Satan – “Then...
May 23, 2024 | Wednesday
The Holy Spirit hasn’t revealed a lot about the personal life of the Apostle Paul. In fact, there are relative few details about any of the great characters of the Bible. But there are little snippets from time to time about David, Abraham, Nehemiah and Daniel. And...
May 2, 2024 | Wednesday
After the Lord Jesus healed the man at the pool of Bethesda, another confrontation with the Jews began. Questions came up about Jesus’ authority and power. In John 5:22 Christ said, “The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, that all men...
Apr 25, 2024 | Wednesday
After spending a day in the Lord’s house followed by a restful night, do you ever wake up on Monday morning full of dedication to God and excited about doing something special for His glory? “This is going to be a good day. I am going to be victorious today, getting...
