Posts from 2011

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Applying the Gospel

by PH

How I applied the gospel to myself yesterday: My worth doesn’t depend on how many people are in our church. My worth doesn’t depend on how many people like my messages. My worth doesn’t depend on how I am thought of with my friends and family. My worth doesn’t depend on how people appreciate what […]

Keeping something sacred

by LD

Good morning everyone, Psalm 5:3-O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch. Even if you are not in school or have kids going back to school during this fall season, there is a feeling like things get busier come this time of year. […]

A Galaxy Far Far Away…

by PH

I love this illustration by Tim Keller: If the distance between the earth and the Sun, 92 million miles, was reduced to the thickness of a sheet of paper, then the distance between the earth and the nearest star would be a stack of paper 70 feet high! And the diameter of a galaxy would […]

Confronting yourself

by PH

Good afternoon everyone, Psalm 42:5-6-Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation 6 and my God. I believe prayer can become difficult for us as Christians especially living in “our age and times” because everything surrounding […]

Physical Death & Spiritual Death

by PH

Sorry to start the week with such gloomy thoughts. But I never realized that when Christ comes, the unbelievers who are still alive (2/3 of the world’s population that are not Christians) will be killed physically first and then thrown into hell. Rev. 19:21, “The rest of them were killed with the sword that came […]

We’re at war!

by LD

Sorry, this devotional is so late in the day. I wanted to give Janet a break from the girls and so I took them out to Bonny Lake library today… Reading through the Book of Revelation, I am reminded again that there is cosmic war going on and we are in it! The reason why […]

It will seem all is lost…

by PH

Have you ever noticed how similar the plot line of so many of American movies are? 1. Relative time of peace. 2. Evil lurks. 3. Crisis 4. Seeming victory by the good 5. Sudden overcoming by evil – Hero seemed to have lost. 6. Dramatic sacrifice by the hero. 7. Final victory by the good. […]

Tested for what?

by PH

Good morning everyone, Job 1:9-12-9 Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? 10 Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. […]

God of Judgement vs. God of Love

by PH

Many people asked me, “Why is the God of the New Testament so different from the God of the Old Testament?” What they mean is that God of the NT seems so chill, loving, sympathetic whereas the God of the Old Testament seems wrathful, angry, vengeful. Well, let me assure you that they are the […]

What they had fought for

by PH

Can you believe the unbelievable freedom and wealth we are enjoying? We are free to read the Bible. We are free to gather and worship Jesus. We are even free to talk to others about Jesus. We are free to raise our children in the Lord! Not only do we have the freedom, but we […]