DAY 234 OF 365 IN 2021 WITH OR WITHOUT? John 6:67-68 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. Whenever a decision is made to jump ship, it is expected that the transition is... Continue Reading →
GENTLE REMINDERS
DAY 233 OF 365 IN 2021 Reference text: Matthew 23:1-12 GENTLE REMINDERS Two messages stem from today's text, the first is a warning arising from the statement "the Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses so do and observe what they tell you". That seat is clearly not a literal piece of furniture, but the... Continue Reading →
LIFE’S CURVEBALLS
DAY 232 OF 365 IN 2021 Reference text: Ruth 1:1-22 LIFE'S CURVEBALLS Ruth 1:16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. I came... Continue Reading →
THE BANQUET OF THE LAMB
DAY 231 OF 365 IN 2021 THE BANQUET OF THE LAMB Matthew 22:9-10 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was... Continue Reading →
IS HE THE LAST NAME ON YOUR LIST?
DAY 230 OF 365 IN 2021 Reference text: Judges 9:6-15 Judges 9:12-14 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said all the trees unto... Continue Reading →
GOD HAS MADE UP HIS MIND ABOUT YOU
DAY 229 OF 365 IN 2021 Reference text: Judges 6:11-24 GOD HAS MADE UP HIS MIND ABOUT YOU Judges 6:11 The angel came and sat under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. It was there that Gideon, his son, was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide his activities from the... Continue Reading →
HE HAS TO BE IN THE PICTURE
DAY 228 OF 365 IN 2021 Matthew 19:20 The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?” In our text today, we encounter a young man in a bit of a predicament: his desire was to gain eternal life hence his contact with Jesus... Continue Reading →
DEVOURERS
DAY 227 OF 365 IN 2021 DEVOURERS Revelations 12:4b The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. The word that stands out from the text today was 'devour'. By definition, to devour means 'to swallow or eat... Continue Reading →
NO MIXING!
DAY 226 OF 365 IN 2021 NO MIXING! Joshua 24:23 He said, “Remove the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh the God of Israel.” Students of metallurgy and the material sciences are familiar with alloys. Even from basic chemistry, we gain an understanding of what the concept of... Continue Reading →