Word-Of-The-Day: ‘<Jesus said,> “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”’ (Mark 11:24) In 2022, there was a Gallup Poll showing that belief in God among Americans is at a new low. It says 81% of Americans claim to believe in God,… Continue Reading Have Faith That God Answers Prayer – Be Earnest In Faith What You Pray For
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(8) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—(9) not by works, so that no one can boast.’ (Ephesians 2:8-9) After Hurricane Ian hit in late September 2022, I took stock of what went well with our preparations and what… Continue Reading Lessons From Ian – As Milton Approaches – Must Include Faith In Jesus
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(6) For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. (7) For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. (8) So do not be ashamed of the testimony about… Continue Reading Have Courage, & Recognize Not All Failures Are Sinful or From Sin
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.’ (Romans 15:4); ‘Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise… Continue Reading ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It, & I Feel Fine’; Not A Song – A Statement Of Faith
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(1) Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.’ (Romans 5:1-2) 31 October is more notable… Continue Reading The Five Pillars Of Christian Faith
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.’ (Amos 8:11); ‘(33) <God> turned rivers into a desert, flowing springs into thirsty ground, (34) and fruitful land into… Continue Reading What If There Are No Eggs To Go In Your Basket?
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘<Paul wrote,> (18) Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, (19) holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.’… Continue Reading Speak Up In Faith, Stand Firm In Truth
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(15) The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, (16) for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.‘ (1 Corinthians 2:15-16); ‘The wisdom of the prudent is to give… Continue Reading Have Faith To Prevail, With Discipline To Confront Reality
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(17) I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. (18) So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.” (19) I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. (20) I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.… Continue Reading Having Faith & Discipline in Turbulent Times
