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Personal Walk

The Use Of Time And What It Reveals

EPHESIANS 5:15-16 – Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. THEME OF THE DAY. THE USE OF TIME AND WHAT IT REVEALS. It is that time of the year when the topic of time likely gets more attention than normal. There was the hype around…

None Greater

GENESIS 5:24 – Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. THEME OF THE DAY. NONE GREATER. Imagine a stranger takes a walk through a cemetery. This individual is reading the words on the various gravestones. By the way, take an unhurried stroll through a cemetery soon. Do so for a few reasons. First, a walk outside is…

The Pathway To Sin

GENESIS 3:1-7 – Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God…

A Sustaining Motivator For A Life Of Faithfulness

1 THESSALONIANS 2:11-12 – For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. THEME OF THE DAY. A SUSTAINING MOTIVATOR FOR A LIFE OF FAITHFULNESS. What motivates us to live daily for…

Christianity According To Mary

LUKE 1:26-38 – In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was…

Defeating Temptation: Four Words Towards Victory.

JOHN 19:18 – There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. THEME OF THE DAY. DEFEATING TEMPTATION: FOUR WORDS TOWARD VICTORY. God’s Word tells us a couple things about temptation to sin. They are found in the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church – No temptation has overtaken you that is…