“Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.” (Luke 4:13)  There are stories in God’s Word that can be ‘right in your face’ kind of stories. There are phrases found throughout God’s Book that can be so reassuring and comforting, while there are others that can absolutely […]

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24) We were watching a documentary on the longevity of life with focus on two vastly different cultures … and […]

“So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God.” (Joshua 23:11)  We must be cautious when it comes to the words that we speak … when it comes to the thoughts we allow to rest in our hearts and lives … when it comes to the way and the manner in which […]

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” (3 John 4) Just hearing the word “children” helps to conjure up in our minds those who bear our family name and each of their personalities and even their potential in life. Watching children “grow in stature and wisdom and in […]

“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” (John 13:1) When we intend to get something accomplished and it does not go as we anticipated, we […]

“But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31) I don’t know anyone who enjoys waiting for something or someone. I do know there are some who are better at […]

“My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.” (Psalm 38:10) We find in the reading of this Psalm David lamenting the harshness of life … whether it be in the recognition of his sins and sorrow over them … or the opposition of […]

“One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.” (Psalm 78:4) By the time you read these words … I will have become a great-grandfather.   Our oldest granddaughter Anna gave birth to a precious baby boy.  And to quote my own dear mother upon her passage to that blissful time […]

“Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out.  The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, ‘Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said there is …” (Jeremiah 37:17) It is no secret.  The world we are living in is unstable in so many ways.  We would hope and pray […]

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33) Could it be that we underestimate just how much our Lord knows about each one of us?  Think about this for just a moment.  Is He not our Creator … of course He is […]