Think on these things (Philippians 4:8-9)
My weekly or routine devotionals.
Last week, as we finished Sunday School in New Zealand, my phone started beeping with messages about the assassination attempt on President Trump. A week later, many call his survival dumb-luck, while others call it divine-intervention. However we look at it, the assassin never should have gotten so close on …
Losing someone dear to us leaves an emptiness that seems difficult to fill regardless of the amount of time that passes. Many of us have walked through this “valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4), sinking under the pain of bereavement, even speaking the Martha’s words, “Lord, if thou …
“In my trouble I have prepared for the house of the Lord” (I Chronicles 22:14) Many are beat down to spiritual weakness, physical defeat and emotional bewilderment, at the attacks of the “prince of the power of the air,” the Devil. It’s at this point of discontent that many believers …
“The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4) From the first book in the Bible through our day, Satan and unlearned men are found quoting God’s Word for 2 main reasons — to justify their deeds and deceive God’s people. When Jesus came on the …
Solomon wrote, “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” (Eccl. 1:2). Here, God applies vanity to everything in life. The Hebrew means “meaningless.” God’s use of vanity to describe the worth of temporal things of life strikes an unambiguous comparison to God’s eternal blessings. Yet, …
God ordained government for the good of man and “the punishment of evildoers” (I Peter 2:14; Romans 13). However, no government has authority from God to pass laws that violate His Law. As sin has corrupted what God has ordained, human government has failed throughout history to fulfill its ordained …
Reading through Zechariah 3, I could not help from verse 1 to be reminded of those Tom & Jerry cartoons — where Tom had a good angel on one shoulder and a bad angel on the other — where Tom battled with a tug-o-war between choosing to do right or …
Read Philippians 3:13-14 Paul uses his surroundings to teach God’s Word, just as Jesus used parables as word pictures to teach those around Him. He used Roman soldiers to illustrate the Armor of God to the Ephesians and used the Greek games to illustrate running a race to the Philippians. …
The brain is composed of what scientists call “gray matter,” a term given because the brain appears gray when autopsied. Before autopsy, it’s brilliant with lively color, but becomes “gray matter” when the body is dead. The Bible is composed of what scholars call “gray areas,” a term given because …
The term “Guardian Angel” comes from religion and the world to give a sense of supernatural protection outside of trusting God alone. Though this phrase is never found in the Bible and our guardianship is never seen in the hands of any angel, God does charge these created servants of …
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