When we hear the English word temptation, we can also think of an opportunity to resist and overcome evil. In Matthew 6:13, the word “temptation” can refer to a trial that God allows to strengthen your faith or a temptation that Satan or your flesh presents to…
What Moses and Elijah discussed with Jesus remains a mystery. The fact that they spoke of Jesus’ departure in Jerusalem is unique to Luke’s gospel, nevertheless. His death could also be implied by this term. So far, that has been our sole indicator of the nature…
Luke 18:11-14 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ 13″ But the tax collector…
Humans are naturally selfish and self-centered, and 2 Timothy 3:1 says that in the last days people will be lovers of themselves; the self referred to in that verse is the sinful self that has no regard for others.
If you are ungodly, you will be motivated solely by what…
God desires authenticity in our worship, not empty rituals. In Isaiah 1:13, we see His disdain for offerings that lack true devotion. The practices of worship, including incense and sacred gatherings, were established by God, yet they must be accompanied by a heart that is…
Galatians 1:4,9-10 …Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
9 I want to reiterate something that has been mentioned before: If someone is spreading a message that is different…
Matthew 7:15-16 15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Jesus warned us to be wary…
To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’ Revelation 2:17b The conqueror or overcomer, the meanings are the same, is the one…
Watchman: Daily Devotional
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.-Hebrews 9:27
As The Makropulos Case opened at New York’s Metropolitan Opera on January 5, 1996, tenor Richard Versalle was performing. He mounted a ladder and…