He had gone too far this time. As if all the lies, deceit, and swindling of money from family and friends were not enough, this time Bill had burglarized our parents’ house. My brother had brazenly stolen anything of pawnshop value, leaving behind a trail of fingerprints and one key piece of evidence: unforced entry […]
Bread of Life
Scripture: On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten […]
Daily Focus: Path to Restoration
December 9, 2021 Scripture: And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-Uzzah to this day. And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the LORD come to me?” And it was told King David, “The LORD has blessed […]
Daily Focus: Fruitful Abiding
December 8, 2021 Scripture: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. John 15:4 ESV Observation: The Greek verb for abiding (menein) appears forty times in the Gospel of John and twenty-six times in his epistles. […]
Daily Focus: Death Has No Grip On Us
December 7, 2021 Scripture: When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?” The sting of Death is sin, and the power of sin is […]
Daily Focus: I Am What I Am
December 6, 2021 Scripture: For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it […]
Daily Focus: Misplaced Trust
December 5, 2021 Scripture: And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? Isaiah 36:4 ESV Observation: Isaiah and the authors of Kings and Chronicles present parallel accounts of the above verse and its surrounding narrative of Hezekiah and Judah’s […]
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