Spiritual Fitness

It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” – Matthew 4:4. We read the words and we hear the words but do we really listen? Sixteen times in the New Testament Jesus challenges us to use our...

What Better Time?

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life –...

Sin Destroys

So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” –...

Y3K

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. – Revelation 21:8. In the words of one newsperson, “we made it!” Y2K seems to have had little effect on...

Fastings

Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked…in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness-. – 2 Corinthians 11:25-27. Tomorrow is the day which Intercessors for America are urging Christians to unite...

Merry Christmas!!

“And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.” “Joseph also went up from...

A Change in Plans

Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit’; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears...

Leaning

Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. – 1 Corinthians...

Time For God

So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. – Exodus 24:18. Do you know what two people did for 34 hours, 11 minutes, and 37 seconds over the weekend? It is...

Lover of Souls

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. – 1 John 3:16. Julia Hill has literally been up a tree for the past two years. The name of the tree is “Luna.” It is an...