May 1, 2021 | 1 Thessalonians 1:1 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue A hub of political and economic power. People known for idol worship. Welcome to Thessalonica, the capital city of the Roman province of Macedonia. This month we’ll begin by reading Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, probably written from Corinth in about 51 A.D., […]
April 30, 2021 | James 5:13–18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Dutch Christian and Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom was known as a woman of prayer. She once said, “What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.” As we end our study on powerful prayers from the […]
April 25, 2021 | Acts 4:1–31 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Shortly after Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples went into the Temple courts and healed a crippled man. The authorities opposed the crowds that soon gathered and tossed Peter and John into prison. The next day, they were questioned, “By what power, or what name did you […]
April 23, 2021 | Luke 18:1–8 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue “Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness,” said Hannah More, an English religious writer and philanthropist in the late 1700s. Prayer is “not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.” For Hannah, prayer was not something […]
April 17, 2021 | Psalm 39 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Silence can be a virtue. But sometimes, God gives us opportunities to speak truth, and we must be careful not to neglect the opening to make a meaningful difference. In our text today, David was silent when he should have spoken. His anguish increased when […]
April 11, 2021 | 1 Kings 8:22–53 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue There is nothing quite like completing a huge project, whether it is home renovation or an all-day feast. The feeling of accomplishment is satisfying. That’s what Solomon and the Israelites experienced as they laid the last brick at the Temple project. The altars were […]
April 10, 2021 | 1 Kings 3:1–15 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Aristotle is quoted as saying, “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” However, better advice came from King Solomon, who wrote centuries earlier: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 9:10). In our text today, we see that Solomon […]
AM WIERD! YES I KNOW… When I spend hours in church they say I am lazy and stupid…. probably not in my face. But when they spend hours at the stadium watching games and go to the night clubs it’s okay. When I give $ 2,000 in church they ridicule me but praise me for […]