Looking through the window glass,
What I’m seeing, need not ask.
People staring everywhere
Looking as if they don’t care.
World is going straight to hell,
For the most are under spell,
Hypnotized by what they see
On their teeny tiny screens.
World is lost in all their sins,
While the time is...
Peter and John were arrested and put in jail for teaching the people about Jesus Christ and concerning his death and resurrection. The next day they were brought before a Council and questioned about the healing of a man who was lame from birth, and Peter took this opportunity, as he was filled...
I am reading in Acts 4, but the story actually begins in chapter 3, so I am going to summarize a good portion of this until I get to today’s passage, so that we get the context of what was taking place.
Peter and John were instrumental in the healing of a man who had been lame since birth. With...
The dishonest are calling out dishonesty in others.
The liars are calling out the other liars,
As though they, themselves, are not among the liars.
The corrupt and the disrupters are calling out
The others who are corrupt and who disrupt society.
So this is like “the pot calling the kettle...
“Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone...
These were the Lord’s instructions to Joshua, who was to succeed Moses, after his death, as the leader of the Israelites. And he was to lead God’s people, who were left, out of the wilderness into the Promised Land. God said to him, “As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.” So, the words...
“For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers...
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I...
The love that we are to have for one another is the same love that we are to have for God which is a selfless and self-sacrificial love which prefers to live through Christ, to embrace God’s will, to choose his choices, and to obey them (his commandments) in his power, strength, and wisdom. This...
Monday, October 23, 2017, 11:33 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Gift of God.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read various scriptures in the NIV on the subject of encouragement.
Our Need of Encouragement
We all need encouragement, don’t we? And, by encouragement I don’t...