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 […]
Fulfilling God’s Gift of Time
Scripture: After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For […]
Who Else but Jesus?
Scripture: When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he […]
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 […]



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