1 Peter 1:6-8 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and may result…
Humans seek spirituality via evil. Thus, people can be “spiritual” while being evil. Same as New Age. Holy God does not require immorality given up. Nobody must conform to a righteous God.
The Israelites were admonished by Moses not to be like them. They were…
2 Corinthians 5:7-8, 10 7 We live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things…
The final phrase of the book of Judges in the Old Testament portion of the Bible, a book that chronicles the moral degradation of society in Israel in the years following Moses’ death, reads: There was no ruler in Israel at the time. Everyone did what they thought was…
SRH: Because of sin, man’s initial destiny was limited by God.
Man was given sovereignty over the entire earth by God, and the earth provided for all of his needs. All he needed to do was accept and be grateful for the ground that was given to him. However, after Adam…
The word ‘discipline’ means ‘to teach.God is constantly trying to teach His children. The previous verses in yesterday’s devotion showed us that trials in life teach us of our dependency on His Word. The lesson is humility. The teaching method is…
This passage is known as the Shema (to hear) among Jews. According to Jesus, it is the most important of all God’s laws. He added that this passage encapsulated the entirety of the Law. It begins by stating that YHWH (LORD in all caps) is our Elohim, which is Hebrew…
The disciples were shocked and scared as they followed Jesus into Jerusalem (Mark 10:32). Jesus told them again that He would be nailed to the cross, mocked, spat upon, beaten, and killed, but that He would rise from the dead on the third day (Mark 10:33–34). As Jesus…
If you knew Jesus was coming today, what would you do differently?
Many people think that as the world gradually turns to Jesus, the kingdom of God will arrive subtly. They hold that the earth will be aware of Christ’s invisible dominion once it is populated by…