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Watch For Presumptuous Sins

PSALM 19:13 – Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. THEME OF THE DAY. WATCH FOR PRESUMPTUOUS SINS. Let’s begin today with defining the “big word” in today’s scripture. In doing so, we set the stage for the seriousness of heeding today’s theme. The…

Never Trust Yourself

JEREMIAH 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? THEME OF THE DAY. NEVER TRUST YOURSELF. The evidence is everywhere. The carnage stretches across many families and churches. The horrible results are not difficult to see. The pain is felt by many. I am referring to the damage that occurs when individuals rely upon…

It Isn’t About Us

JEREMIAH 14:7 – Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. 1 JOHN 2:12 – I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. THEME OF THE DAY. IT ISN’T ABOUT US. There is a verse that opens the one…

Reaching Heights Of Spiritual Maturity

PSALM 119:71 – It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. THEME OF THE DAY. REACHING HEIGHTS OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY. The Bible gives us much evidence to affirm we are growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus toward spiritual maturity. Here are a few; increased love for other Christians manifested by self-denying…

Practicing Biblical Fellowship

1 JOHN 1:1-4 – That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father…