Author Archives: Intentional Faith

Today’s Text: Revelation 21:1-8 Sorry for missing the last two days.  Thelma Jo Sterling had surgery for an aneurysm and ran into trouble at the close of the process.  She had to be put into an induced coma.  The neurologists will meet with the family today and try to give answers and a prognosis.  IContinue reading “A View of Heaven”

Reading Text: Mark 6:30-34; 53-56 Jesus took His disciples to a secluded place so that they might rest after their labors. He wanted to discuss their ministry with them and prepare them for their next mission. As Vance Havner has said, "If you don’t come apart and rest, you will come apart." Even God’s Servant-SonContinue reading “We of Little Faith”

Thursday’s Text:  Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43 The younger generation state that they like Jesus but they don’t care that much for the church.  If we are to reach them, we must use the wisdom Jesus offers here about living in the kingdom. Throughout the Bible, leaven is a symbol of evil. It had to be removedContinue reading “Leaven in the Lump”

Tuesday’s Text: Psalm 139:1-2;23-24 What we think about God and our relationship to Him determines what we think about everything else that makes up our busy world—other people, the universe, God’s Word, God’s will, sin, faith, and obedience. Wrong ideas about God will ultimately lead to wrong ideas about who we are and what weContinue reading “Right Ideas about God”

Wednesday Reading Romans 8:12-25 It is not enough for us to have the Spirit; the Spirit must have us! Only then can He share with us the abundant, victorious life that can be ours in Christ. We have no obligation to the flesh, because the flesh has only brought trouble into our lives. We doContinue reading “Does the Spirit Have You?”

Today’s Text: Genesis 28:10-19 On awakening, Jacob’s first response was one of fear and surprise. God was in that place, and he didn’t know it! But "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" (Prov. 1:7), so Jacob’s response was the right one. He discovered that he could find God in unlikely placesContinue reading “Decisions Matter”

Do the heavenly bodies have any influence over our lives? The millions of people who consult their horoscopes each day would say, "Yes!" In the United States, there are about 1,750 daily newspapers, and 1,220 of them carry astrological data! Is there any relationship between diet and spiritual living? Does God speak to us immediately,Continue reading “Colossians 1:1-14”

Today’s Text: Luke 10:25-37 Jesus did not say that this story was a parable, so it could well be the report of an actual occurrence. For Jesus to tell a story that made the Jews look bad and the Samaritans look good would either be dangerous or self-defeating. "You just made that up!" they couldContinue reading “The Good Samaritan”

Matthew 13:1-23 The Parable of the Sower does not begin with "The kingdom of heaven is like" because it describes how the kingdom begins. It begins with the preaching of the Word, the planting of the seed in the hearts of people. When we say, "Let me plant this thought in your mind," we expressContinue reading “Parable of the Sower”

Read the Text and the following Reflection.  Let me know what you think! The Law condemns; but the believer has a new relationship to the Law, and therefore he cannot be condemned. Paul made three statements about the believer and the Law, and together they add up to: no condemnation. The Law cannot claim youContinue reading “Romans 8:1-11”