Archive for August 14, 2012

Thought for the morning of Wed August 15, 2012

Very admirable was his occupation. If those who spend so many hours in idle company, light reading, and useless pastimes, could learn wisdom, they would find more profitable society and more interesting engagements in meditation than in the vanities which now have such charms for them. We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere. When Jesus is the theme, meditation is sweet indeed. Isaac found Rebecca while engaged in private musings; many others have found More >

Day 117 | Read the Bible in a Year

read the bible in a year: day 117 Acts 11:19-30

19 Then those who had gone away at the time of the trouble about Stephen, went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus, preaching to the Jews only. 20 But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks. 21 And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord. 22 And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as More >

Spies Within Our Walls

In Matthew 2:8, Herod sent the magi to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.”

We have seen attacks on churches for their position on certain topics that are hot in the media today. Being that everyone is welcomed to come, spies are coming in to churches as undercover agents, militant like, to get information before launching their next attack. It seems like a form of social terrorism. The structure of the church has put itself in a dangerous position. While it is More >

Day 75 | Read the Bible in a Year

read the bible in a year: day 75 Matthew 16

1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven. 2 But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times. 4 An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to More >