LUKE 11:33-36 – No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
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Proverbs 1:2-7 – To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth —
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Do you believe Jesus literally died, was buried, three days later rose from the dead, ascended to heaven and is coming back to the earth in visible form? Do I?
Today’s scripture is Psalm 141 in its entirety. There is much gold in that mine! Take time and read it over, slowly and prayerfully.
As we read the Parable of the Good Samaritan with “fresh” eyes, identify two commonalities among the priest, Levite, and Samaritan.
We will either build our spiritual lives on the solid rock foundation of Christ by obedience to His Word or a foundation of sand by merely hearing His Word but not doing His Word. And this is the ever-present danger facing us.
LUKE 9:23-26 – And Jesus said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses…