JOHN 14:15 – If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. THEME OF THE DAY. PROVING OUR LOVE FOR GOD. The Bible does not leave us in the dark with today’s nugget theme – proving our love for God. One of the most wonderful aspects in our Bibles is the amazing simplicity by which it instructs us how to love…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
New Testament
ROMANS 7:15-20 – For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.…
1 JOHN 3:1-3 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that…
1 JOHN 3:1 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God; and so we are. THEME OF THE DAY. OH HOW HE LOVES US. One of my favorite all-time quotes comes from the Puritan pastor and theologian, John Owen. He said, “We are never more nearer to God than…
ROMANS 7:11 – For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. THEME OF THE DAY. THE DECEPTIVE POWER OF SIN. A family were missionaries in an African country. One day, their daughter was playing in the yard outside of their home and noticed a beautiful “string of jewels” glistening in the sun. She had been…
1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 – So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. THEME OF THE DAY. WIRED TO LOVE AND BE LOVED. Love. It is a universal word; a universal longing in the human soul, and a word so misunderstood and misapplied when it is interpreted, defined, and then lived from a flawed human…