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Archive for April, 2012
Life Source – Week 6
Have you ever felt totally confused by a conversation that you are a part of? I mean, you hear the words … but you cannot grasp the meaning. It is so frustrating! That is exactly the scene in John 13 that we have read this week. There is so much confusion in the room. Jesus washes their feet and then says – now you do it, too. When? Right now? Jesus keeps talking about leaving and they can’t go. Why not? They have been everywhere with Him for 3 years. One of them is going to betray Him? Surely not! Who in More >
Faith & Works Continued: James 2: 20
As we continue listening to James write about faith and works …
James 2: 20 – 26.
Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is barren? Was not our ancestor Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was brought to completion by the works. Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. You see that a person More >
Perfected Praise
In Matthew 21:16, the indignant Pharisees said to Jesus, “Do You hear what these are saying?” Jesus replied to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?” quoting from Psalm 8:2
The devil is very slick. That is why he is called “the great deceiver.” He tried to have Jesus denounce His own position, power, authority. It is sad to see how Satan can blind the minds of so many smart and sophisticated men. They have so much knowledge but can never answer the simple question of what will happen to them after death. It More >
How Great A Love
In Matthew 27:30-31, the Roman guards and soldiers spat on Jesus, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head. After they had mocked Him, they took the scarlet robe off of Him and put His own garments back on Him and led Him away to crucify Him.
The love that God has for us is unbelievable. It can only be explained as a miracle. No human being could ever love someone else that much. How much love for people who hate you is necessary to watch your only Son be mocked, beaten, and ridiculed. It is hard enough for us to watch that happen to someone that we don’t know. More >
Thought for the morning of Mon April 30, 2012
There are murmurers amongst Christians now, as there were in the camp of Israel of old. There are those who, when the rod falls, cry out against the afflictive dispensation. They ask, “Why am I thus afflicted? What have I done to be chastened in this manner?” A word with thee, O murmurer! Why shouldst thou murmur against the dispensations of thy heavenly Father? Can he treat thee more hardly than thou deservest? Consider what a rebel thou wast once, but he has pardoned thee! Surely, if he in his wisdom sees fit now to chasten thee, thou shouldst not More >
Thought for the morning of Tue March 1, 2011
Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be sanctified to the drawing forth of the perfume of our graces. So long as it cannot be said, “The Lord was not in the wind,” we will not shrink from the most wintry blast that ever blew upon plants of grace. Did not the spouse in this verse humbly submit herself to the reproofs of her Beloved; only entreating him to send forth his grace in some form, and making no stipulation as to the peculiar More >
Day 60 | Read the Bible in a Year
read the bible in a year: day 60 Matthew 8:14-34
14 And when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother in bed, very ill. 15 And he put his hand on hers and the disease went from her, and she got up and took care of his needs. 16 And in the evening, they took to him a number of people who had evil spirits; and he sent the spirits out of them with a word, and made well all who were ill; 17 So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our More >
Thought for the morning of Sun April 29, 2012
The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God’s Word, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;” and it is a great truth, that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be “As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day,” yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At certain periods clouds cover the believer’s sun, and More >
Thought for the morning of Sun April 29, 2012
The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God’s Word, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;” and it is a great truth, that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be “As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day,” yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At certain periods clouds cover the believer’s sun, and More >
Kingly Strength
In Matthew 21:15, when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant!
Has anything really changed? When we offer praise, glory, and honor for our King Jesus Christ, the world expresses its displeasure. Jesus is the most offensive person the world has ever known. His followers, His believers, those who put their trust in Him are considered to be intolerant when in reality we have become too tolerant. It is at a level of disgust nowadays. We need More >
