Why do we experience pain? December 10, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: For our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:29 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Someone has said, “If you are looking for a leader to follow, find someone with a limp.” The wounded in life are those who have learned difficult lessons t...
Keep ReadingBad choices in your past? December 9, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: What man is he that feareth the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way that He shall choose. Psalm 25:12 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: You are free to choose. You are not free, however, not to choose. After you make a choice, your choi...
Keep ReadingWho knows you best? December 8, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. Psalm 31:24 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Who knows you better than the One who created you? Who cares more for you than the One Who died for you?...
Keep ReadingMore than a knot at the end of your rope? December 7, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 2 Corinthians 4:7 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: If you’re like most people, you don’t realize your dependency on God until ...
Keep ReadingDoes it seem like God is on vacation? December 6, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. Jude 24 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Have you fussed and fumed through life’s challenges, wonderi...
Keep ReadingThe true depth of the Savior's love December 5, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father. John 10:18 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: The true depth of the Sav...
Keep ReadingWhat is the world coming to? December 4, 2018
For by Him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him; And He is before...
Keep ReadingWorking all things together and toward His return December 3, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: God has not promised you smooth sailing, but He has promise...
Keep ReadingNo one knows your needs better... December 2, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: . . . for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. Matthew 6:32 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: St. Augustine once said that we were created with a “God-shaped” void. I agree. Only God can meet the deepest lo...
Keep ReadingTrue Satisfaction is Found in the Lord December 1, 2018
BIBLE MEDITATION: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: The Scottish-born naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir, once had a conversation with railroad magnate and industrialist E. H. Harrim...
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