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- Matthew 22:37-39
Getting Ahead and Being Behind
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 73:1-5 Central Thought: We find our wealth and prosperity only in the Lord Did you ever wonder if God has a…
No Time Off
Today’s Scripture: Luke 9:7-27 Central Thought: We should be as willing to help meet the needs of others as Jesus is to meet our needs…
Grab Hold and Hang On
Today’s Scripture: Luke 8:40-48 Central Thought: Reaching out and touching Jesus is a key to healing Have you ever wondered how…
Master of the Storm
Today’s Scripture: Luke 8:22-25 Central Thought: Jesus has power over storms Storms. Trials. Problems. I don’t like them; none…
Are You Listening?
Today’s Scripture: Luke 8:4-15 Central Thought: Hearing God is an every day choice There is a commercial on television for cell phone…
Keep it Real!
Today’s Scripture: Luke 7:36-50 Central Thought: True humility is the key to correct worship ‘Keep it real!” This is a popular…
Rise and Live
Today’s Scripture: Luke 7:11-16 Central Thought: Jesus can raise up your dead spirit Have you ever felt like you just wanted to give…
A Successful Pilgrimage
Today’s Scripture: Luke 7:1-10 Central Thought: God desires us to walk under and in His authority Faith, power, and authority are…
Reaching the Nations
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 67: 1-7 Central Thought: God wants the message of His salvation to reach every nation In this short Psalm we…
A Generous Heart
Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 11: 24-26. Central Thought: I need not be rich to have a large heart Jesus pointed out to His disciples…
Barbs in Your Eyes
Today’s Scripture: Numbers 33:55,56 Central Thought: Old sinful habits that are brought into my new spiritual life will bring pain. I…
A Jewel of Gold in a Swine’s Snout
Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 11:22 Central Thought: Verbal indiscretion is as foolish as placing a gold ring in a pig’s nose In…
Thirst for God
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 63: 1 Central Thought: When I, like a deer, am harried in the hunt and become thirsty enough, I will come at…
My Weakness, God’s Strength
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 62:1-12 Central Thought: My strength is found only in God Little boys like to show how strong they are by…
Kindness Quotient
Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 11:16-17 Central Thought: ‘Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”…
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Ten Concepts of a Healthy Marriage
You have just been introduced to all the Basic Concepts that I use whenever I try to save a marriage. If you apply them all to your…
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God is Not Tired of You
I get it. Living in a world like ours drains you. It’s not just the break-neck speed we move at these days or the to-do lists that seem to…
Why I Love Other People’s Prayers
Sure… prayer is, for the most part, a personal thing. It is also a corporate, human-divine exchange in places like churches and other…
Dark Safety
I can still picture it clearly, though I was probably about five-years-old at the time. Standing on the back porch between my parents, I…
New Motherhood Lessons from Ancient Mommas
Motherhood, it seems, is one long series of lessons held in the often chaotic classroom of daily living. Children are not the only learners…
Was it cruel for Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away?
In Genesis 21:14, Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael away into the desert. Yet Abraham was not sending them to die of thirst there. He gave…
Getting too comfortable in Egypt?
Exodus opens where Genesis leaves off: Jacob and his family settled in Egypt (Exod 1:1-5), and Joseph and his generation died (1:6).…
Be fruitful, multiply—and expect opposition
Although being fruitful and multiplying (Exod 1:7) is a good thing, it can also provoke opposition from those who wrongly feel us…
Are Spiritual Gifts for Today?
Paul declares that we are the body of Christ with many members (Rom 12:4-5; 1 Cor 12:12, 20). He then elaborates on some of the varied gifts…
Beating a tyrant at his own game
The unscrupulous Pharaoh, determining to act shrewdly (NRSV, ESV) with God’s people, planned to kill their infants through the Hebrews’ own…
Moses as a third-culture kid
Did Moses know that he was a Hebrew? Contrary to some of the movies we see (including my beloved Prince of Egypt!), he presumably did. In…
Kids of Briarwood: The Journey Begins- Chapter 16
The summer was in full swing, yet it seemed different this year. Sam’s dog, Sandy, hit by a car, had been laid to rest. He was not much more…
The Banquets of Two Kingdoms
Matthew’s narratives often concretely illustrate his teachings elsewhere. In Matthew 14:1-12, Herod Antipas executes John the Baptist. In so…
The Hebrews were sinners too
In Exod 2:11-12, Moses killed an Egyptian who was striking one of Moses’s own people. He meant to act for justice. Unfortunately, however,…
Moses as a refugee
Moses may have thought that killing an Egyptian oppressor was an act of justice, but the Egyptian overlords have different ideas. Once word…
Settling in a new land
When I travel to speak in various parts of the world, my hosts show me great hospitality. I miss my wife and kids, but otherwise life is…