LUKE 5:12-16 – While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. And he…
LUKE 9:24 – For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.” THEME OF THE DAY: DEAD SEA CHRISTIANS. Two of the ugliest things a Christian may allow in their lives are first, holding God’s truth in the heart and proclaiming it without love. As Francis Schaeffer once said, “Biblical…
LUKE 4:16-22 -And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is…
PSALM 119:94 – I am yours; save me, for I have sought your precepts.” THEME OF THE DAY: OWNED BY THE LORD. As we live the Christian life, we proclaim the Lord is “my” Lord; Jesus is “my” Savior and many other expressions of us claiming as our own the One True Living God. And this is right. Christianity is…
LUKE 3:21-22 – Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” THEME OF THE DAY: LIFE’S GREATEST MOTIVATOR.…
PSALM 119:67 – Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.” THEME OF THE DAY: THE GIFT OF SUFFERING. I wonder how many of us would answer my following statement with an affirming and resounding “Yes, I knew that and I do embrace my seasons of suffering as such.” Now the statement backed up by the…