Category: Discipleship

Over The Edge

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. – Ephesians 4:29. But may I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the...

Your Best

Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did...

Eternal Living

I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. – John 10:10b. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. – John 3:16. Most assuredly,...

Selling Your Soul

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? – Matthew 16:26. What would you do to gain the whole world? Sell your soul? What is the price...

Growing Up

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. – Luke 2:52. The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a study by Harvard University, has found that “religiously active people are more likely to be viewed as good citizens and have a more diverse circle of friends...

A Secret Visit

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry. – Psalm 34:15. The judges in Israel were a little upset last week with the Justice Minister. Yossi Beilin who is Israel’s Justice Minister dropped in on several courtrooms in disguise on...

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...

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...