ElCapitanGrok 
Scripture O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit. — Hosea 14:8 (ESV) Devotional Our fruit is found from our God as to union. The fruit of the branch is directly traceable to the … Read more
Scripture Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet. — Jeremiah 49:23 (ESV) Devotional Little know we what sorrow may be upon the sea at this moment. We are safe in our quiet chamber, but far … Read more
Scripture And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. — Mark 2:4 (ESV) Devotional Faith is full of inventions. The house was full, a crowd blocked up the … Read more
Scripture But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. — Galatians 5:18 (ESV) Devotional He who looks at his own character and position from a legal point of view, will not only despair when he comes to the end of his reckoning, but if he be a wise man … Read more
Some belief is built to end. The empty tomb wasn’t. Milk on thin cozy faith versus load-bearing trust in the risen Christ.
Scripture That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, — Philippians 2:15 (ESV) Devotional We use lights to make manifest. A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could … Read more
Scripture Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? — Job 38:16 (ESV) Devotional Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this … Read more
Who do you say that He is when He looks a trained teacher in the eye and says, “You should already know this”? John 3:10 is accountability, not a dunk — and the first step in Why Nicodemus Should Have Known.
Scripture Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! — Psalm 120:5 (ESV) Devotional As a Christian you have to live in the midst of an ungodly world, and it is of little use for you to cry “Woe is me.” Jesus did not pray that you … Read more
Who do you say that He is when someone says Paul invented the faith — or when the church itself starts saying, “I follow Paul”? Paul is witness, not founder. Christ is the center.
