Month: February 2011

  • Living Stones

    Therefore, encourage one another, and build up one another, just as you are also doing. I Thessalonians 5:11  NASB Build up – Every believer is in the construction business.  But that does not mean you and I are fabricating our own building.  We are assembling the houses of others.  The Greek makes it very clear. …

  • Highest Priority

    February 20 “It is necessary for me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is still day. John 9:4  (J. Green, TR) It is necessary – What is your highest priority?  What defines your life so that if everything else were taken away, you would still be about doing what you…

  • Blame

    And His disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind.” John 9:2  NASB Who sinned – Someone has to be at fault!  Life doesn’t go the way we want it to.  Someone’s to blame!  “Lord, this isn’t fair.  I don’t deserve this.  Who made this…

  • Prayer Request

    This message is from one of our community names Monica: Please, can I ask you to pray for my son? Jordan is twenty years old and lives at home with us. He has had many health problems in his life and is dealing with some new ones at present. He has TMJ, which has not…

  • All Aboard

    Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12  NASB Press On – How do I change boule into thelo?  When we discovered yesterday that “will”…

  • From Ellen to All

    Hello everyone It’s Ellen McFarland Today (Feb. 16th) I received my check for my auto repairs, which was more than required, out of the goodness of all who contributed. Thanks so much to each and every one of you . Your kindness and generosity answered above and beyond anything I could think or ask. I…

  • Active Obedience

    “For I have come down out of heaven, not that I should do my will, but the will of him who sent me.” John 6:38  NASB Will – There are two words in Greek that are translated “will.”  Knowing the difference between these words is crucial.  The first is thelo. It means intending to do…

  • A Prayer of Repentance

    Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel. 2 Chronicles 33:18 NASB Manasseh – Manasseh was one of the…

  • Two or Three

    Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him.” John 14:23 NASB We will come – We need a partner, not a plan.  We don’t need a plan.  In my experience,…