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Honorable Lives
December 5. Reading 339. Honorable Lives Hebrews 13 “We are sure that we have a clear conscience and a desire to live honorably in every way” (Heb. 13:18). Exhortations to honorable living grow naturally out of the most exalted doctrine. Overview The writer closes with exhortations (13:1-19), with one ofRead More …
Daily Help – December 05
DECEMBER 5 Do not dissociate Jesus from our common manhood. It is a dark room which you are going through, but Jesus went through it before. It is a sharp fight which you are waging, but Jesus has stood foot to foot with the same enemy. Let us be ofRead More …
Streams in the Desert – December 05
December 5 “O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” (Jer. 10:23.) “Lead me in a plain path.” (Psalm 27:11.) MANY people want to direct God, instead of resigning themselves to be directed byRead More …
Hold Fast
December 5 Hold Fast . . . but test all things. Hold on to what is good. Stay away from every form of evil.—1 Thessalonians 5:21–22 Hold fast to what is good, or the world will take it away. Satan is the relentless enemy of good. When he saw that what God gaveRead More …
Morning – December 05
Morning “Ask, and it shall be given you.” Matthew 7:7 We know of a place in England still existing, where a dole of bread is served to every passerby who chooses to ask for it. Whoever the traveller may be, he has but to knock at the door of St.Read More …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – December 05
December 5 Belshazzar the king made a great feast. Dan. 5:1. There was one Guest not invited, but He came, and the work of His finger glowed upon the wall. —Selected Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – December 05
Evening – December 04
Evening “Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:23 This groaning is universal among the saints: to a greater or less extent we all feel it. It is not the groan of murmuring or complaint: it is rather theRead More …
Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – December 4
December 4 Ezekiel 45:1-47:5 Psalm 136:17-26 Proverbs 29:15-17 1 John 3:1-24 Self-Protection Now this is His command: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.—1 John 3:23 An advantage of being willing to feel disappointment is that it enables us to come inRead More …
Daily Light on the Daily Path – December 04
DECEMBER 4 MORNING Where shall wisdom be found? Job 28:12 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. — Trust in the Lord withRead More …
D5 Creation
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James
James Introduction This letter was written by James, the brother of Jesus, who was a leader of the Jerusalem church (cf. Acts 15:13-29; Gal. 2:12). It may date from the late a.d. 40s, just after persecution scattered the members of the new movement (James 1:1; cf. Acts 8:1-3). If so,Read More …
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