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Our Greatest Privilege

PSALM 104:1 – Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty. THEME OF THE DAY. OUR GREATEST PRIVILEGE. There are no exhortations to obey God’s Word in today’s nugget. There will also be no challenges to contemplate in living the Christian life. One more thing we won’t be reading…

Our Greatest Need

1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-3 – If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give…

Are We Begging Christians?

MARK 5:18 – As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. THEME OF THE DAY. ARE WE BEGGING CHRISTIANS? Today’s scripture is on the heels of a riveting account of Jesus casting out many demons from a single man. The entirety of this miracle by the Lord…

Why Are We?

MARK 4:35-41 – On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was…

Spiritual Amnesia

HOSEA 11:1-3 – When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that…

Asking And Answering The Hard Question

ROMANS 8:29 – For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. THEME OF THE DAY. ASKING AND ANSWERING THE HARD QUESTION. I picked up the magazine off the coffee table. I am familiar with the publication, but normally don’t read it cover…