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free devotional guides for your quiet time
Monday MARK 1:1-12 Take time to be quiet, until you can focus on being in the presence of God. Read the text until you can understand what it says. If you have any initial thoughts, write them down. Jesus not an obscure man who suddenly shot to fame. You are probably familiar with the details …
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A law draws a line; inside the line is right and outside the line is wrong. The law goes one step further for enforcement — there is a penalty if you go outside the line. The power of law is the fear of punishment. The assumption of law is that you want to go outside …
Continue reading “Law and Grace”
At the beginning of a seminar I attended several years ago, we were given the following three questions to consider. If you could decide, at what age would you like to die? If you were able to write your own obituary, what would you write? If you could choose, what would you have written on …
Continue reading “Writing An Epitaph On One Own’s Gravestone”
Monday MATTHEW 7:13-20 Take time to be quiet, until you can focus on being in the presence of God. Read the text until you can understand what it says. If you have any initial thoughts, write them down. “Narrow and small gate; narrow road; few are there. Wide gate, broad road, many users.” One leads …
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In working on Mark 1, I noticed that NIV rendered v41 as “Jesus was indignant.” I am more familiar with the verse rendered to be “Moved with compassion, Jesus …” and so I was a little taken aback and did a google search. Bill Mounce, President of Biblical Training, gave me some insights. The following …
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[ These are broad strokes and so if the hat does not fit, that’s fine. If it does, then you really need to work these out. ] While there is a strong emphasis on quiet time, in the sense that no church would ever deny its importance, in the main, this part of a Christian’s …
Continue reading “Listening to God’s Word”
Some time ago, a friend of mine from The Philippines sent me a card. He thoughtfully enumerated each blessing he had received from God through me over many years of close fellowship we had shared. As I read the letter, I found that my heart also began to overflow with thanksgiving and deep joy. It …
Continue reading “Jesus Draws Near and Walks With Me”
Monday, January 4, 2021 JOHN 10:1-6 Take time to be quiet, until you can focus on being in the presence of God. Read the text until you can understand what it says. If you have any initial thoughts, write them down. “The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The …
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