For Whom the Bell Tolls (1)

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.  Because you have rejected knowledge I will reject you from priestly service for me.  You have forgotten the instruction of your God; so I too will forget your children. Hosea 4:6  (translation J. A. Dearman) Reject you – We feel good about the love story of Hosea. …

Janis in Genesis

NOTE: The only way to really feel this edition of Today’s Word is to click here to read and listen to it on the web site.  -Skip Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help…

Down Is Up

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ. Ephesians 4:15  NASB Grow up – “I am in deep repentance,” I heard the voice on the telephone say.  “I didn’t realize how slowly I had been slipping away.  Over time I just…

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”…