9 Honor the Lord with your wealth    and with the firstfruits of all your produce; (Proverbs 3:9 ESV) Statistically, only about 5-10% of church going people tithe the traditional 10%. So how do churches survive? Well, again statistically of that 5-10% of givers, 77% give well above the 10% mark. So instead of the...

31 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ (Matthew 26:31 ESV) Jesus was explaining what would happen when they came for Him. How his disciples would all...

29 but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. (Luke 15:29) Have you served in a position or in ministry for a long time? It is...

14 From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good,    and the work of a man's hand comes back to him. (Proverbs 12:14 ESV) Our words and our deeds come back to us. They can either come back satisfyingly or sorrowfully. By what we sow we also reap. Words...

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. (Hebrews 10:23 ESV) To hold fast is to continue to believe in or adhere to an idea or principle, as Dictionary.com says. Another definition I found online says - A metaphor seen in many...