Think on these things (Philippians 4:8-9)
My weekly or routine devotionals.
There is a spiritual famine in America’s churches today. Not a famine of God’s Word, but as Amos 8:11 says, a famine “of hearing the words of the Lord,” a refusal to hear and to heed the truths of His Word. This famine is not because we lack the quantity …
In Psalm 74, Asaph is asking God to remember His people because their enemy had devastated God’s house. He was trusting that God, who had helped destroy their enemy in the past, would not permit their reproach now. “reproached” in 74:18 is an interesting word, with clear Hebrew context, meaning, …
In Numbers 13 Israel is discouraged when God’s promises don’t come in their way and time. God had miraculously brought them from Egypt to their Promised Land. We find them in Numbers 13 just a hop-skip-jump from the land that “floweth with milk and honey.” It was all that God …
After 250 years, the United States of America is still the greatest and freest nation in the world. This does not preclude her moral failures. After 250 years, we can see the emancipation, evangelization, perdition, expectation and hopeful acceptation with God of the United States of America in Revelation 22. …
250 years ago, patriotism was alive and real unlike any time in history. Men enlisted to fight for our nation’s freedom with great honor knowing they were signing their own death warrant. Before the United States of America, no country had allowed its citizens to stand up against them and …
Preservation comes to us through surviving manuscripts. Original manuscripts are gone, only copies exist. The total number of manuscripts of the New Testament is 5,488 in two major text-types: the Byzantine and Alexandrian texts. Byzantine is named for the Byzantine area (Syria, Turkey, and Greece, where the Paul ministered). It’s …
We visited the Museum of the Bible yesterday. It was a great blessing to see the preservation process of God’s Holy Word. It was also disheartening to see the admiration given to versions of the Bible that did not fall into God’s divine preservation. Our church exclusively uses the King …
Today is Father’s Day. As we look back to our parenting days, through hindsight, we clearly see how our ways impacted our children’s ways ─ they instinctively became who we were as their sin nature capitalized more on our sin nature than on our redeemed man. As father’s who have …
Sunday is Flag Day, a day to recognize and honor the adoption of Old Glory on June 14, 1777. This day became an annual observance by Presidential proclamation since June 14, 1916 by all but 2 Presidents, and by official Act of Congress on August 3, 1949. Flag Day is …
Have you ever noticed how people run for cover when it rains? When someone doesn’t have an umbrella, they run hard to get under cover somewhere. If someone has an umbrella, they seem to walk just as they would normally walk. The other day it was raining very hard, and …
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