If God is for us, who can be against us? —Romans 8:31 The first and last verses of Romans 8 bracket the chapter with two wonderful promises: 1) there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (v. 1), […]
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I have put my hope in your word. —Psalm 119:114 Your favorite meteorologist doesn’t control the weather—only reports it and gives warning when it turns nasty. Hearing the weatherperson’s advice won’t stop storms, but heeding it may save your life. Likewise, hearing God’s counsel may not
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You do not know on what day your Lord will come. —Matthew 24:42 Jesus is coming again; that is certain. Nobody knows when; that is equally certain. Jesus said neither he nor the angels knew (Mt 24:36). That hasn’t deterred the date-setters. William Miller said it would happen in 1844. He convinced thousands to
If we do what helps [others], we will build them up in the Lord. —Romans 15:2 You know him, but not by his real name; you know him by his nickname. His real name was Joseph; his nickname was Barnabas. That was the name given to him
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Encourage one another and build each other up. —1 Thessalonians 5:11 Here’s a question for you: Did you give anyone a word of encouragement yesterday? Life isn’t a sprint; it’s a marathon—a long, demanding race. We all need encouragement to get to the finish line. As always, Charlie Brown’s team had lost the ball game,
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[We were created] to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. —Ephesians 2:10 Make the psalmist’s prayer your own: “Teach [me] to number [my] days and recognize how few they are; help [me] to spend them as [I] should”
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Jabesh was in the crosshairs of the sadistic King Nahash. Frightfully outgunned, Jabesh’s leaders were considering surrendering. “Here’s how it will go down,” said Nahash: “I’ll mark you as mine by gouging out the right eye of every one of you. You have a week to think about it—In seven days, you can fight me
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How sweet are your words to my taste. —Psalm 119:103 Spiritual life is both birthed and sustained by God’s Word: “You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God” (1 Pt
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The Lord your God is with you wherever you go. —Joshua 1:9 John McCain spent five-and-a-half years in “Hanoi Hilton” prison in Vietnam, where beatings were routine, torture was commonplace, and fear was constant. “Fear,” wrote McCain, “is indispensable to courage.” For courage to be authentic, he said, “it must
Remember how fleeting is my life. —Psalm 89:47 F.W. Boreham wrote forty-eight books, the last having been published in 1961. C.S. Lewis wrote more than sixty books, the last having been published in 1963. These two influential and prolific authors both confessed that the
