This has been a week! We had even more reason to give thanks on Thanksgiving with the birth of our third grandchild. Winter Ryan came into this world a little rough, but she made it and is doing well today. We also had the blessing of a few days with...
They Don’t Know You
1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (1 John 3:1 ESV) There may be times when we feel unknown and rejected...
God’s Thanks
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100:4-5 ESV) I held off my Thanksgiving devotional for a day for a few reasons. First, I wanted to take the day and think...
Under Control
27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control,[a] lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV) So that we do not misinterpret this line of scripture, Paul is not talking about losing our salvation. What he is referring to is that if we are not self...
Discernment
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. (John 16:13 ESV) Yesterday we looked at discretion, we walked through a...