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.
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
Theotokos. That is the word. In English: God-bearer, or Mother of God. This title is about Jesus — a fence around His person, not a detour into Mary-worship.
