Think on these things (Philippians 4:8-9)
My weekly or routine devotionals.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 teaches, “though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” This is important in understanding that blessings are not a physical guarantee for the outward man but spiritual for the inward man. As we age, if this is not put in heavenly …
Read Ecclesiastes 1 — the preacher comes across as a pessimist. In 1:2-4, everything is empty and worthless, life is meaningless and without hope or purpose. In 1:5-7, everything in nature continues, century after century, while man is here for just a brief time. The preacher paints a bleak picture …
Most people are desperately attempting to live, while missing the true meaning of life. They seek meaning in their possessions, through their pleasures and by their own power. Their wheels spin out of control with no direction or destiny because they deny the key ingredient, God, and rely wholly on …
Hope is something everyone seeks, but life has a way of striking hard, leaving us at the end of our hope — a lost loved one, circumstances too heavy to bear, a health crisis, or simply aging. We find ourselves stuck, unable to see a way forward, feeling all alone …
We all know how easy it is to innocently look prideful. President Ronald Reagan wrote about a speech he gave in Mexico City: “After I had finished speaking, I sat down to rather unenthusiastic applause, and I was a little embarrassed. The speaker who followed me spoke in Spanish—which I …
Silent Night is a Christmas hymn we love to sing, but the night Jesus was born was far from a Silent Night. 400 years of silence led up to this grand event, that was over 100,000 nights where God was silent. No prophet declaring, thus saith the Lord. No man …
God used a pagan emblem at Christmas to bring pagans to Jesus after His birth. Over the centuries, poems, children’s stories and beautiful hymns have been written about this specific form of paganism. Today, this pagan emblem is in most manger scenes, and many churches hang it during Christmastime as …
From my research, here is my timeline for approximate years of significance for December 25th: 164BC ∼ Hanukkah began on 25 Kislev, Jewish November/December 46BC ∼ Caesar introduced the Julian Calendar 30AD ∼ Jesus celebrated Hanukkah in John 10:22, in winter, not as the Winter Solstice Celebration 201AD ∼ An early Christian …
Christian, when was the last time you were called an Xtian? Likely never! Sadly, Christ is systematically being removed from everything including CHRISTmas. “Xmas” has become a catch phrase the world grabbed hold of, taken from scholarly Christians who do not call themselves Xtians. Xmas is said to be used …
‘TIS THE SEASON to start watching holiday movies. One of our girls’ favorites is “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.” Charlie Brown was a good ‘ole soul who could not catch a break, he was nothing less than a lovable loser. Charles Schulz told why children root for him, “We all know …
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