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.
Scripture You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. — Leviticus 19:36 (ESV) Devotional Weights, and scales, and measures were to be all according to the standard of justice. Surely no Christian man will … Read more
Who do you say that He is when a culture learns to call the sacrifice of its children an option — or a right? Dignity is not conferred by wantedness. Dignity is the image of God, bestowed.
Who do you say that He is when the state — or the culture around it — calls death medicine? Dignity is not control of the exit. Dignity is belonging to the One who already holds your times.
Scripture Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” — Mark 1:41 (ESV) Devotional Primeval darkness heard the Almighty fiat, “light be,” and straightway light was, and the word of the Lord Jesus is equal in majesty to that ancient word of power. Redemption … Read more
You are not a soul trapped in a leftover body. The body is not the sinner. The person sins. The Son assumed the whole man, so the whole man is healed.
Scripture The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. — Psalm 11:5 (ESV) Devotional All events are under the control of Providence; consequently all the trials of our outward life are traceable at once to the great First Cause. Out of the golden gate of God’s … Read more
