Posts made in August, 2022

We are More Alike than Different “Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.” 1 Corinthians 10:1-4, NKJV Today, there are different churches,...

Sin Is Up, Church is Down “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD….” Psalm 33:12, NKJV In a recent Pew Research Center poll, it was discovered that 31% of Americans are unaffiliated with any church or religion. It was also discovered that those Americans who do consider themselves to be affiliated with a church or religion has gone down from 61% to 47% since 2012. It is estimated that since 2012, 7.5 million people have their...

The Peace That Only God Gives “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7, NLT The object of these two verses is the peace of God. It refers to finding the peace of God and letting that peace...

A Prayer For Every Morning “……..and that You would keep me from evil”, 1 Chronicles 4:10, NKJV These words are part of the famous prayer that Jabez prayed that can be found in the Old Testament. There is much that we can learn in that very short prayer but I have selected only a portion of that prayer for today’s devotional. We are tempted every day of our lives and we are tempted many times during the day by the devil whose ultimate...

Be Not Ashamed “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” Romans 1:16, NKJV Christianity is under attack these days. There seems to be an attempt every year about this time to silence the Christmas story. There seems to be one kind of lawsuit or another going on about an attempt to remove some Christian symbol from a...