Another church asked me this month to write a devotional for their Bible Challenge website (http://www.thebiblechallenge.org) on Proverbs 25:17. I thought I would share it here also: A woman told her husband, “You don’t look at me and you don’t love me anymore.” He quickly sh
I was born June 18, 1956. I was born again when I was around 8 years old at the First Christian Church of Melbourne, Florida. I was a young kid but wanted to follow Jesus. I was reborn again 45 years ago at 12 years old….it was 1968. At this time I started to follow Christ and started to unde
Let me illustrate how these attitudes–indeed, how these blessings– that Jesus is telling us about build on each other. In the last devotional, we looked at verse 8: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Remember that “Blessed are the pure in heart̶
When I was younger I used to eat like I had a hollow leg. If I would have died they would have put, “When do we eat?” on my tombstone! There are a lot of things that we hunger and thirst for….success, fame, popularity, possessions, power, and pleasure. It doesn’t end there do
Life is NOT about the QUANTITY of things we do, the “exploits” we have, and the pleasures we keep pursuing. It IS about the “QUALITY” of our daily walk in life and our daily walk with God. And this, I believe, is so much what the Beatitudes are all about. You’ll notice that
I have heard that if you play a country record backwards, your spouse returns, your dog is resurrected, and your truck starts working again. Now, I know in many ways that life isn’t that way. But there is a grain of truth in the fact that when we apply the wisdom of Jesus, a truth that is in m