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Living Under Authority

JUDGES 17:6 – In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” We were created to be under authority, God’s authority. No human being is exempt from this truth. No one was created to live independent, self-willed, self-made, and absent from being under authority. When a nation, church, family, and life refuse this…

The Satisfaction of Christ

MARK 8:1–9 – In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint…

Beware of the Signs

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 – But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance…

Life’s Greatest Purpose, Privilege, Pleasure and Pursuit

DEUTERONOMY 11:1 – You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.” Informing today’s nugget theme in question form, it would be “What is life’s greatest purpose, privilege, pleasure, and pursuit?”, the answer is singular measured by one action. Both are found in today’s scripture. First, the singular answer is to…

The “Clock” of Our Lives

EPHESIANS 5:15-16 – Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.” I remember an old clock that sat on the mantle of the fireplace in my home. If one were near, you could watch the hands methodically move with a low hum of tick tock, tick…

Salvation Is Not All About Us

PSALM 106:8 – Yet He saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.” Often in the Christian life, we need a work of “spiritual calibration.” What I mean is the reminder that the Bible begins with “In the beginning God”, not “In the beginning man” (Genesis 1:1) pointing us to remember everything is all about Him.…