Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Salvation

The Dangers in the Sin of Procrastination

PROVERBS 6:9-11 – How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.”   THEME OF THE DAY. THE DANGERS IN THE SIN OF PROCRASTINATION.  Today’s scripture is…

Living In His Presence

PROVERBS 5:21 – For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.”   THEME OF THE DAY. LIVING IN HIS PRESENCE. The theme of today’s nugget contains both a truth that is unchanging and an awareness we must cultivate.  Obviously, all human beings – Christians and non-Christians – live in the presence of the living…

Choices We Make

EPHESIANS 4:17-24 – Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.  They have become callous and have given themselves…

Remember Who is Praying

  LUKE 22:32a – “But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.”   THEME OF THE DAY: REMEMBER WHO IS PRAYING.  It was mid-afternoon, but the thick clouds betrayed the clock.  Surely evening had arrived.  It looked like rain.  It smelled like rain.  It felt like rain.  I had no doubt the heavens were about to open.  I…

What Is Really Behind Our Trials, Temptations, and Tests?

EXODUS 20:20 – Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of Him may be before you, that you may not sin.”     THEME OF THE DAY. WHAT IS REALLY BEHIND OUR TRIALS, TEMPTATIONS, AND TESTS?  An untested faith is a false faith. An untried faith is an unreliable faith and a…