Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

When All Looks Bad, It Isn’t

ACTS 27:18-25 – Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo. And on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. Since they had been…

A Life of Influence

PHILEMON 4–7 – I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for…

Written and Living

MATTHEW 24:35 – Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” THEME OF THE DAY: HIS WORD: WRITTEN AND LIVING.  Ask any true Christian to identify the foundation of our faith and the answer should be quick, with conviction, and boldly stated, “The Bible, God’s Holy Word.” But the answer would expand to “And faith in God’s…

Always on Watch. Always in Battle

LUKE 4:1-13 – And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to…