Thought For Today: “Light Enters Darkness” As God stepped into darkness and brought light, so Jesus, the Light of the World, steps into the darkness of death bringing the light of life. “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over … Read more

Today’s Thought: “Thanksgiving: Prayer’s Missing Element” When we give thanks, it always seems to center around something that has happened to us, and for us as Christians that should include what God has done in sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us so our sins can be forgiven, and we can have eternal … Read more

Thought for Today: “Develop Thankfulness” We are to daily give thanks if we want to be thankful people. We need to discipline ourselves to find something every day to be thankful for and express our thanks to God. We are told in Ephesians 5:19-20, “Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, … Read more

Thought of the Day: “Truth Brings Acceptance” Can we believe God’s Word enough to change our lives based upon it? You bet, for it has proven itself to be true through thousands of years of skeptics and challenges to its veracity. To Timothy, Paul says that God’s word can be trusted for all that he … Read more

Thought For Today: “Faith Goes Beyond Reason” Sometimes having faith when we cannot see, touch, or hear it for ourselves is tough. But this is the faith that can move mountains, and what we thought was impossible, to be possible. Abraham and Sarah exemplify this perfectly. While Abraham remained childless, with he and Sarah being … Read more

Thought For Today: “Daily Sabbath Time” Whenever the Sabbath is mentioned, we immediately think of the Sabbath day of rest, which for the Jews was from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and Christians considered it to be Sunday. But then the Apostle Paul threw a wrench into man’s thinking saying, “One person esteems one day … Read more

Thought For Today: “God’s Revealed Love” We say that God is love. In fact, this is probably what most people who don’t even know God say about Him. But how do they know? How has God revealed His love so that everyone can know it and respond to it? Jesus’s birth reveals the Father’s love. … Read more

Thought For Today: “Waiting With Expectancy” “It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.” (Luke 2:26) Simeon was waiting with expectancy because the Holy Spirit had revealed a promise. Waiting with expectancy is about being filled with the Holy Spirit, allowing … Read more

Thought For Today: “Weeping For Our World” As I look at our world today, especially here in America, I don’t recognize it as it has lost its identity in Christ. As I think about that, the think of when Job’s friends saw his condition, and that they could no longer recognize him it says they … Read more

Today’s Thought: “No Condemnation or Separation” Interesting, in Romans chapter 8, Paul begins by saying that as believers in Jesus Christ, we are no longer under condemnation. “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1) And Paul ends this chapter by saying that we are no longer separated … Read more

Tuesday’s Thought: “Spiritual Sight Required” We’re often exhorted to open our ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking to the church. Jesus said, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” (Revelation 2:7, 29) But while we’re opening ourselves to hear what the Lord is saying, … Read more

Thursday’s Thought: “Taking Up Our Crosses” If Jesus said to pick up our crosses daily and follow Him, then why do we live as we do? “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23) Taking up our cross isn’t being inconvenienced … Read more

Tuesday’s Thought: “No More Stumbling in Darkness” Isaiah gives a very somber warning to God’s people as they continued in their sin with no confession and a turning from it, that is, they never repented. They looked for God’s justice and righteousness, but it was far from them. They said, “Nor does righteousness overtake us; … Read more

Thursday’s Thought: “Getting Unstuck” Many believers today are feeling like they’ve stalled out in their journey of faith. They see little if any change in their situation and in this crazy mixed-up world, a world filled with disease, disaster, disappointment, and despair. They feel as if they’ve been locked out of the presence of God … Read more

Tuesday’s Thought: “Seeing What God Sees” Physical sight can easily deceive; therefore, we need the Lord to open our spiritual sight so that we can see with His eyes the true reality that surrounds us. This is seen in all its various aspects from the story of what the prophet Elisha prayed for when all … Read more

Thursday’s Thought: “Is the Spirit Stirring?” “So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the governor, and the spirit of Joshua the high priest, and the spirit of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord.” (Haggai 1:14 paraphrased) The people of Judah started out strong after they returned … Read more

Tuesday’s Thought: “Peace for Today’s World” The world is in desperate need of peace. There are wars, uprisings, and terror threats across the globe. Children are killing each other or ending their lives before they have a chance to live. Jerusalem, whose very name means peace, has seen nothing but continual conflict. And while its … Read more

Thursday’s Thought: “Possessing Our Promises” The Promises of God are ours only when we by faith claim and move forward in them. The Lord said to Joshua, “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you.” (Joshua 1:3) The whole land was theirs, but they could only possess what … Read more

Tuesday’s Thought: “Apply or Embody” To apply something to our lives means to appropriate, employ, utilize, and make something relevant for our lives. When it comes to God’s word, the Bible, we are constantly told that we need to apply it, which is a good thing because it means to apply its truths to whatever … Read more

Thursday’s Thought: “Faith To Go” Faith is moving into the unknown. This is the classic definition of faith. The writer of Hebrews in his chapter on faith said, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) And while faith is moving into the unknown, it is … Read more