Aug 30
“Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart” 2 Timothy 2:22 (NIV) ‘Flee’ doesn’t mean to just not partake in impure desires, it means to turn the other way and RUN! I heard a saying that rings […]
Aug 28
“Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss” Judges 20:16 (NIV) These men were called upon to fight for the Israelite army. I guarantee that these soldiers didn’t “just happen” to be good at the sling shot. […]
Aug 26
“The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.” (NIV) I’m not exactly sure what Paul meant by this verse, but I do have an understanding about ‘grace’. ‘Grace’ reminds me of the word “room”. Room to grow. Room to make mistakes, learn from them and start over. Room to sin, confess it and ask God to keep changing me. Helping me to […]
Aug 23
” Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” Galatians 6:9 (NIV) Today’s verse does not imply that doing good will give us immediate results. “At the proper time” could be hours or decades from now. So I guess […]
Aug 21
“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” Galatians 6:2 (NIV) We all have our own set of hard times, issues, stresses, concerns…that tend to weigh us down. Those “burdens” can consume our day, and drain our insides. We then go into ‘burden-management mode’, trying to sort out […]
Aug 19
“He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers” Psalm 1:3 (NIV) I like this picture that God paints in today’s verse. Even during the driest times of summer won’t effect a tree planted at the bank of […]
Aug 16
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God” Romans 8:38-39 (NIV) Whenever I need to hear that someone cares about me and […]
Aug 14
“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” Luke 12:15 (NIV) No matter how wealthy you are, there will always be someone richer. No matter how much shopping you do, there will always be something else we will desire. It’s […]
Aug 12
“A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man displays folly” Proverbs 14:29 (NIV) Something that I can proclaim with certainty over my 50 plus years of life is that people will bother other people. We will get upset by someone’s words or actions in the course of daily living. It’s hard to control that […]
Aug 9
“…and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV) All of us have what I call a “self talk” going on in our heads. Some refer to it as our “thought life”. Many times we just let it happen, but we need to realize we can interrupt that […]