Thought For Today: “Practice What We Preach” The phrase, “Practice What You Preach” is given in response to someone who is being hypocritical, telling people how to live their lives, or what to do, while they end up living and doing the exact opposite. Jesus came against this sort of thing by the Jewish religious … Read more

Thought for Today: “No Shame in Waiting” No one likes to wait. But even more we have a hard time saying to someone that we’re waiting upon the Lord, especially when we tell them of a promise God has given but have yet to receive. And this also goes for when we are waiting for … Read more

Thought For Today: “Resentment is Foolish” The following story is an illustration of what holding onto resentment can do, and the end is tragic. A snake entered a carpentry shop, and as it crawled to the corner it slithered over a saw and hurt itself. It immediately bit at the saw but hurt its mouth … Read more

Thought For Today: “Can’t Sleep?” Getting and staying asleep today is big business. We see ads for all sorts of sleep aides, from prescription to over-the-counter drugs, mattresses that cool or heat and that form to our body’s unique contours. All so that we can have a good night’s sleep. But what I have found … Read more

Thought For Today: “Pray; Something Will Happen” Here a thought that I hope captures our attention and changes the way we not only look at prayer but change our attitude towards it. If we are told that we are to take everything to God in prayer: “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer … Read more

Thought For Today: “DIY Faith” One of the more popular reality television shows is about how to fix, repair, and make brand new a person’s home. And there are a lot of them out there and are mostly found on the DIY Network and HGTV. These have given rise to stores like Home Depot and … Read more

Thought for Today: “God’s Purpose For Remembering” The word, “remember,” means to bring something back to mind, or to think again about it. But, in remembering we must remember (this might be a pun) not to live there, but to use it to spur us forward, either through learning a lesson or to garner strength … Read more

Thought for Today: “The Heart of the Great Commandment” Jesus said, “‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” … Read more

Thought for Today: “Holy Spirit or Bust” Unless God breaks through with Holy Spirit power, there will be no revival. Either the Holy Spirit will show up in power or the church will lose its light. No amount of marketing will ever replace Holy Spirit filled and directed prayer. As God’s people let’s start praying … Read more

Thought For Today: “Jesus’s First Words” It’s exciting when you hear a baby’s first words, and we usually end up recording them, either through some recording device or in some sort of memory book. These are important words. Now we know Jesus’ last words on the cross. They are recorded for us in both Luke’s … Read more

Thought for Today: “Satan’s Lies, God’s Remedy” There are two lies Satan wants us to believe. 1) Just once won’t hurt. 2) Now that you have sinned you are beyond God’s use and might as well enjoy sinning. But this sort of thinking doesn’t coincide with God’s word that says that where sin abounds God’s … Read more

Thought For Today: “Personalize for Hope” Need some hope? To help when we feel down and discouraged take what God has written down in His Word, the Bible, and personalize it. God’s word is God’s love letter to each one of us. So instead of reading it in some detached way that doesn’t relate, let’s … Read more

Thought For Today: “Doctrinally Correct but Devotionally Wrong” As we study doctrinal truths, it must be perfectly clear that whatever we learn can never take the place of love and grace. We must be careful not to be so doctrinally correct that we become devotionally wrong. “We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs … Read more

Thought for Today: “God 911” When you get to that place when you have nowhere else to turn, call upon God. In fact, call upon God before you get there. Before you go too far, call upon God for your salvation. “I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; so shall … Read more

Thought For Today: “God’s Not Dead” To the women who came to Jesus’s tomb the angels said, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen!” (Luke 24:5b-6a) Jesus rose from the dead and is alive, therefore let’s stop serving a dead religion, and instead serve the Living … Read more

Thought For Today: “Salvation Through Grace” “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8). In a nutshell, Paul’s saying that God’s grace is free, which is totally opposite of the way most people think. Most believe that they can get to heaven … Read more

Thought for Today: “God’s Divine Design” The richest spot on this earth isn’t the diamond mines of South Africa, the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, or the microchips of Silicon Valley! The richest land is found in the local cemeteries, because that’s where we’ll find so many unfulfilled promises, untapped dreams, and lives that have … Read more

Thought For Today: “God, Science, and Nature’s Laws” Science observes our world and discovers a pattern in how it operates and attaches it to a law. They call it the “laws of nature.” Through these laws they are then able to predict the course of nature’s phenomenon. But what science is actually observing is the … Read more

Thought for Today: “Questioning God’s Word” “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1b) Anyone who puts a question mark behind the word of God instead of an exclamation point is being played by the devil. When we question God’s word we are then standing in judgment … Read more

Today’s Thought looks at how and why we are God’s love letters to those who do not know Him.