Category Archives: Faith

Today’s Text: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Thelma Jo Sterling is sitting up and talking.  The Lord be praised.  But the coma has left some loss of memory and confusion.  Keep her in your prayers as she progresses.  Also remember Stephanie Johnson (Rob’s wife) in your thoughts and prayers.  She suffered a miscarriage this week in Kentucky. Continue reading “Reconciled”

Today’s Text: Exodus 16:1-21 Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men and women. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." That wise counsel comes from American preacher  Phillips Brooks.  When he spoke those words to his Boston congregation, perhaps he had theContinue reading “No Easy Life”

Today’s Text: Deuteronomy 7:6-14 In Scripture, separation is not isolation; for if believers are isolated, how can they be "the salt of the earth" and "the light of the world" (Matt. 5:13-16) and influence others for the Lord? Believers can be separated from sin and to the Lord and still be involved in the normalContinue reading “Separate but Not Isolated”

Today’s Text:  I Corinthians 1:9 In this passage of thanksgiving three things stand out.      (i) There is the promise which came true. When Paul preached Christianity to the Corinthians he told them that Christ could do certain things for them, and now he proudly claims that all that he pledged that Christ could doContinue reading “Thanksgiving Not Judgment”

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”