1 Samuel 17:46-47 (ESV) 46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, […]
Psalm 115:13 (ESV) 13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, both the small and the great. Godly fear is one of the most important characteristics that we can have. With it, we will please God by living a life that is according to His will. Without it, we will live according to our […]
Tonight’s blog is based on an illustration I once read and is produced below. “Linda was traveling alone up the rutted and rugged highway from Alberta to the Yukon. She did-n’t know you don’t travel to Whitehorse alone in a rundown Honda Civic, so she set off where only four-wheel-drives normally venture. The first evening […]
Deuteronomy 5:28-29 (ESV) 28 “And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. 29 Oh that they had such a heart as this always, […]
Proverbs 20:7 (ESV) 7 The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him! Many parents decide to leave their children all their earthly possessions when they die. That is generally a good idea. As Christians, however, we should be concerned with what we leave our children spiritually more than physically or […]
Malachi 1:6-8 (ESV) 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your […]
Ephesians 3:14 (ESV) 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, As Christians, prayer should be a permanent fixture in our lives. Not a day should go by without us praying to our Father, in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Why should we pray? Let us look at […]
Psalm 139:1-3 (ESV) 1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are ac-quainted with all my ways. Psalms 139 emphasizes the omniscience of God. […]
Joshua 1:5 (ESV) 5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Joshua had a great task before him. He was to take the place of Moses and […]
Proverbs 16:7 (ESV) 7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. When we live lives that are pleasing to God, it can make life easier. I understand that such is not always the case when the church is under some kind of persecution, especially […]