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Thoughts – November 26

November 26 The Lord… thy habitation. Psa. 91:9. We go home without arrangement. We plan our visits, and then go home because they are over. Duty, want, a host of things, lead us forth elsewhere; but the heart takes us home. Blessed, most blessed is he whose thoughts pass upRead More …

Men of the Bible – The Prodigal Son and the Elder Brother

The Prodigal Son and the Elder Brother Their work: These men worked for their father, a wealthy landowner. Their character: Both of the brothers were sinners. One committed the sin of unrighteous living and the other the sin of self-righteousness. Their sorrow: Both men were alienated from their father. GeographyRead More …

Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – November 25

November 25 Ezekiel 28:1-30:8 Psalms 131:1-132:5 Proverbs 28:15-18 1 Peter 1:22-2:17 The Devil’s Cleft Foot You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty…. From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways.—Ezekiel 28:12, 15 New Christians often ask: just who is theRead More …

Daily Light on the Daily Path

NOVEMBER 25 MORNING Being made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. Romans 6:18 Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. — When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for theRead More …

Hebrews

Hebrews Introduction The author of this unique New Testament letter is not identified. It is thought he wrote to Christian Jews a few years before the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in a.d. 70. The Book of Hebrews carefully compares Old and New Testament faiths. It shows how Christianity grewRead More …

Dear Brother Slave

November 25. Reading 329. Dear Brother Slave Philemon —”No longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother” (Phile. 16). Hearts must change before institutions can. Background Slavery. A high percentage of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire were slaves. Slaves were viewed as property, andRead More …

Daily Strength for Daily Needs – November 25

November 25 And the Lord, He it is that doth go before thee; He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.—Deuteronomy 31:8. Know well, my soul, God’s hand controls Whatever thou fearest; Round Him in calmest music rolls Whate’er thouRead More …

A Time Of Anguish

November 25. A Time Of Anguish Psalm 86:1 Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy. It is obvious that the writer of this psalm was going through some kind of calamity. The person was dealing with some kinds of problems, pressures, and situationsRead More …

Daily Help – November 25

NOVEMBER 25 Does Christ receive us when we come to him, notwithstanding all our past sinfulness? Does he never chide us for having tried all other refuges first? And is there none on earth like him? Is he the best of all the good, the fairest of all the fair?Read More …

Streams in the Desert – November 25

November 25 “Take the arrows…. Smite upon the ground. And he smote twice and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times.” (2 Kings 13:18, 19.) HOW striking and eloquent the message of these words! Jehoash thought heRead More …