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...

The Silent World

There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s...

Time For Action

And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst...

A Courageous Mother

So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, ‘Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.’ And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi. So the woman conceived and bore a...

Good Friday

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. – Romans 5:10. Some time ago, I cut out and saved, a Wizard of Id cartoon. The friar says to the king, “Happy Good Friday...