Devotional – Midnight Life “About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.” Acts 16:25-26 NIV… Read More »
Does your happiness depends on anyone else’s affections, opinions, and presence in your life? If so, the relationship has become skewed-get help before it becomes a prison! Relationships are scary and fraught with difficulties. Our insecurities can make us emotionally unstable, overly dependent, and fearful. We get entangled and bogged down in toxic relationships. So,… Read More »
One of Susan’s brothers recently told me about his journey back to faith. He was raised in a Christian home, but stopped having faith many years ago. After their father died, his spiritual interest was piqued again. He said to me, “I don’t feel like I have to prove that God exists to doubters for… Read More »
Green Pastures: They Require Action Numbers 28:1–31; 1 Corinthians 10:23–11:16; Psalm 23 Love and complete reliance on God are interrelated concepts. When we discover what love really means, we want to praise God for it. When we learn to rely on God for all our needs, we see just how loving He is as He takes care… Read More »
Pressures from without often create problems from within. It isn’t easy to carry on your work when you are surrounded by danger and daily face the demands of a task that seems impossible. If the Jews became discouraged, they would defeat themselves; and Sanballat and his allies would never have to wage war. Discouragement is… Read More »
Philippians 3:7–11 Knowing Christ Paul “considered” all that was “important” (3:7), the righteousness he could claim as a Pharisee, to be worthless (3:7–8). See the same concept in 2:6, where Christ “did not demand and cling to his rights as God.” Paul wanted to know Christ (3:8, 10; cf. 1:9, “knowledge and understanding”; 2:13, “working… Read More »
More often, the word “salvation” concerns an eternal, spiritual deliverance. When Paul told the Philippian jailer what he must do to be saved, he was referring to the jailer’s eternal destiny (Acts 16:30-31). Jesus equated being saved with entering the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24-25). What are we saved from? In the Christian doctrine of salvation,… Read More »
The Christian’s Walk Ephesians 4:17-32 17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of… Read More »
