THE FLAWLESS WORD January 7, 2020 | 2 Peter 3:14–18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue You may have never heard the name Athanasius before, but you have been impacted by his steadfast commitment to God’s truth. Athanasius was an important church leader in Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century AD. A pastor and a biblical scholar, […]
TURN AND LOOK January 6, 2020 | Isaiah 45:22–25 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue On a bitterly cold Sunday morning in 1850, a young man slipped into the back row of a tiny Methodist church. Since the head minister was delayed due to the storm, an uneducated deacon delivered a message. His text? “Look unto Me, […]
January 5, 2020 | Colossians 3:15–17 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Before becoming the fourth president of Moody Bible Institute, William Henry “Will” Houghton pastored several churches in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and New York. Biographer Wilbur Smith said of him, “Two primary passions possessed the soul of Will Houghton: evangelism and the study of the Word of […]
JANUARY 4, 2020 “CULTIVATE THE PRESENCE OF GOD” SCRIPTURE READINGS: Exodus 33:12-17, Joshua 1:1-8 EXPOSITION: God’s presence is a very precious thing. No Christian can afford to lose it. David noticed that there is fullness of joy in the presence of God and pleasures for evermore (Psalm 16:11). Moses also noticed that the presence of […]
Intentional reflections|| Mentiasie Main Text: Luke17:11-19 and Psalm 103:1&2 In our dispensation with so many life issues which can be pressing and sometimes make us feel defeated, we tend to forget the goodness of God. Little do we understand that God is still faithful in our mess. We somehow have tagged some miracles and blessings […]
Thursday, JANUARY 2, 2020 SCRIPTURE READINGS: Isaiah 43:18-19, Philippians 3:13- 16 EXPOSITION: God in His wisdom has divided time into days, weeks, months, years and seasons so that we can have the opportunity to evaluate our lives and have a fresh start. As a new year begins today, it is worth evaluating how you fared […]
January 1, 2020 | Hebrews 11:1–13 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Do you have a favorite Bible verse or Scripture passage? This month, we will read portions of Scripture that defined the lives of Christ followers. Some names, such as Billy Graham, Charles Spurgeon, or Dwight Lyman Moody, might be familiar to you. Others, like Haddon […]
Fear… It is described as False Experiences Appearing Real. Fear is crippling! Fear ridicules! Fear is a liar! Fear can stop you from achieving your goals, from living your dreams, from taking your place. Fear is the devil’s favourite weapon. He uses it to deceive, to weaken and to conquer. Fear controls, pulls you […]
September 29, 2019 | Psalms 38–39 DEVOTIONS. This Month’s Issue Would it be better to win a silver medal or a bronze? In 1995, psychologists from Cornell University studied the reaction of Olympic silver and bronze medalists. They found that bronze medalists were significantly happier with their achievement than silver medalists. The reason is that […]
September 28, 2019 | Psalm 37 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue After experiencing a crushing political defeat and breaking off an engagement to be married in 1841, Abraham Lincoln was in a dark place. He later talked about how he had contemplated suicide, but refrained because he “had done nothing to make any human being remember […]