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Daily Help
Wherever the church is, there is God. God is pleased, in his mercy and condescension, to stoop from the highest heavens to dwell in this lower heaven—the heaven of his church. It is here, among the household of faith, he deigns—let me say it with sacred reverence—to unbend himself, andRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light.” (Matt. 10:27.) OUR Lord is constantly taking us into the dark, that He may tell us things. Into the dark of the shadowed home, where bereavement has drawn the blinds; into the dark of the lonely, desolate life,Read More …
In Life’s Storms
In Life’s Storms God never promised believers would live an easy life, but He does promise our hardships aren’t in vain. April 11, 2022 Matthew 14:22-33 When difficulties arise, are you surprised that the Lord would allow them? Such thinking assumes that being an obedient believer exempts us from problems.Read More …
Murder and Malice
April 11, 2022 Murder and Malice by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Proverbs 6:16-19 The Lord’s list of abominations—behaviors He intensely detests—continues with the hands and the heart. Hands that shed innocent blood The shedding of blood refers to killing someone, not merely drawing blood in a nonfatal injury, and the qualificationRead More …
Choices
Choices When the young man heard that command, he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.—Matthew 19:22 Your life is the sum of the responses you have made toward God. Once God makes Himself known to you, what you do next is your decision. Your reaction reflects what youRead More …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
April 11th Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Gal. 6:2. However perplexed you may at any hour become about some question of truth, one refuge and resource is always at hand: you can do something for some one beside yourself. At the times whenRead More …
Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible
April 10 Deuteronomy 17:1-19:13 Psalm 44:1-8 Proverbs 10:28-30 Luke 9:1-22 Christ’s Righteousness For I do not trust in my bow, and my sword does not bring me victory. But You give us victory over our foes.—Psalm 44:6-7 When Paul talks about the “righteousness like armor on your chest” in EphesiansRead More …
Daily Light on the Daily Path
APRIL 10 MORNING I am black, but comely. Song of Songs 1:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. — Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee,Read More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
April 10 Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God. Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.—Colossians 3:22, 23. Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything, To doRead More …
D5 Creation