Archive for August 8, 2012

Day 114 | Read the Bible in a Year

read the bible in a year: day 114 Acts 10:1-33

1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, the captain of the Italian band of the army; 2 A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times. 3 He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius! 4 And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings More >

Recognizing the King!

In Matthew 2:4, Herod gathered together all the chief priests and scribes of the people and he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.

The chief priest and scribes were scholars of scripture but they were too spiritually blind to recognize Jesus the Christ, the King of the Jews had come into this world. Herod was trying to rid himself of a problem that would happen in the future. The obstacles that Jesus had to go through at conception, at birth, in ministry, and in death is a miracle in itself. If Herod would have found Jesus, the chief More >

Thought for the morning of Sun April 24, 2011

There are many occasions in our experience when we may very rightly, and with benefit, renew our covenant with God. After recovery from sickness when, like Hezekiah, we have had a new term of years added to our life, we may fitly do it. After any deliverance from trouble, when our joys bud forth anew, let us again visit the foot of the cross, and renew our consecration. Especially, let us do this after any sin which has grieved the Holy Spirit, or brought dishonour upon the cause of God; let us then look to that blood which can make More >

Thought for the morning of Wed August 8, 2012

See the spider’s web, and behold in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite’s religion. It is meant to catch his prey: the spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious cannot always escape. Philip baptized Simon Magus, whose guileful declaration of faith was so soon exploded by the stern rebuke of Peter. Custom, reputation, praise, advancement, and other flies, are the small game which hypocrites take in their nets. A spider’s web is a marvel of skill: look at More >