Archive for March 2024

Jud. 1:17-19 But as for you, beloved, remember the [prophetic] words spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They used to say to you, “In the last days there will be scoffers, following after their own ungodly passions.” These are the ones who are [agitators] causing divisions—worldly-minded [secular, unspiritual, carnal, merely sensual—unsaved], devoid…

Mt. 16:9-11 Do you still not understand or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you picked up?  Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?  How is it that you fail to understand that I was not talking to you about…

Col. 4:18 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. May grace (God’s unmerited favor and blessing) be with you. Those of us who live in the developed world have a lot. Even our fellow countrymen who are disenfranchised and in need have more than many who live in the undeveloped…

Psa. 51:11-13 Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.  Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit.  Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You. No one’s Christian walk is…

Pro. 17:22 A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. Two sisters, twins, grew up in the same home and in the same way.  In their youth, they were very close and very similar. Unfortunately, life was not always kind.  Their lives were…

Heb. 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us, focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter…

Jn. 16:19-23 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?  Very truly I tell you, you will weep…

Jn. 15:9-11 I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love.  If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.   I have told you these things so that My joy…

Rom. 15:13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. There are many things that all people have in common regardless of faith or spiritual opinion.  One of those things is the characteristic…