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Saying Yes (When We Want to Say No)
Saying Yes (When We Want to Say No) When we choose to trust God instead of our feelings, blessings follow. August 22, 2022 Jonah 3:1-10; Jonah 4:1-11 The book of Jonah doesn’t end the way we might expect. From the belly of a fish, Jonah recommitted himself to the Lord’sRead More …
The Church, Part Two
August 22, 2022 The Church, Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Ephesians 1:19-23 Yesterday, we discovered Dr. Jay Kesler’s five reasons why the church really is a big deal. No, it isn’t perfect (you’re a part of it, aren’t you?) and it hasn’t always modeled its message. But whatever isRead More …
The Meek
August 22 The Meek Blessed are the gentle, because they will inherit the earth.—Matthew 5:5 In popular thinking the term meek implies weakness. The word Jesus used had a different meaning. His picture of meekness is that of a stallion that has been brought into subjection to its master. WhereasRead More …
Philippians 1:9-10
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, Philippians 1:9-10
James 4:12
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor? James 4:12 Read all of James 4
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Romans 8:32 Read all of Romans 8
Morning – August 22
Morning “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.” Song of Solomon 5:8 Such is the language of the believer panting after present fellowship with Jesus, he is sick for his Lord. Gracious souls are neverRead More …
The Widow of Zarephath
Today’s Scripture Reading 7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the Lord came to him: 9 “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow thereRead More …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
August 22 He… began to wash the disciples’ feet. John 13:5. We forget that Jesus Christ is the same today, when He is sitting on the throne, as He was yesterday, when He trod the pathway of our world. And in this forgetfulness how much we miss! What He was,Read More …
D5 Creation