JOHN 5:39: You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.” Here is the scene that happens among Christians daily, at least I pray it is so among Christians. We get up early in the morning when stillness abounds in our homes or find a secluded place in…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
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Luke 14:27 – Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
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Today’s nugget is going to be different. It is going to contain two things; a book recommendation and ten questions for a healthy spiritual examination.
Today’s scripture is the riveting account of the woman caught in adultery. The lessons abound in this story, but our focus centers on the lesson of contrast.
Simplify. Focus. Stay on track. Keep a single gaze. Don’t make it complex. Those are all exhortations to the single goal we should strive for each day of the Christian life.
If we try hard we can listen and pick up the steady tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock of the clock of our lives second-by-second, minute-by-minute, and year-by-year moving us to the day it stops and our lives on this earth come to an end.
LUKE 22:31-34: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,32but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen yourbrothers.”33Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”34Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not…