Three Blessings to Count Today
Some say that grace stands for God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense, but what are these riches? David says at the end of Psalm 144 that: “Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!” The desire of the Lord is to bless His people, in part in this world, and fully in the next. The verse above follows verses 12-14, which…
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Love Bigger Than Mountains
Would you be impressed if I moved a mountain by faith? The apostle Paul might not be. 1 Corinthians 13 begins with these 3 verses: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as…
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The Perfect Life
Are you living your best life? In American culture, people say they’re “living their best life” when they’re doing great, doing the things they enjoy, and there’s nothing else they’d rather do. Sometimes we may do what we’re supposed to do and enjoy it, but I doubt anyone is doing this constantly without exception. I also doubt it’s as completely fulfilling as we expect it to be or tell others…
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The Gospel is About a Who, not a How
In chapter 9 of John’s gospel he records a story of Jesus healing a man who was born blind. In John’s story, Jesus made some mud out of saliva and dirt, then put the mud on the man’s eyes. Then Jesus tells the man to go wash off the mud in a pool. When the man does this, his blindness is gone! Because this man was born blind and had…
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Daily Readings for March 2 – 8
Fellow travelers: For those looking for a Bible reading plan, each week in 2026 I will post 2 chapters to read per day as a main reading plan, and for anyone who wants to read the whole Bible in 2026, I’ll post the extra chapters to read that week. The main readings will include nearly all of the New Testament, plus Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Prophets, and a few other…
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Letting God Set the Agenda
One of the most significant ways the media influence us is by what’s called “agenda setting,” which means is that they tell us what is important and what we should care about by choosing what issues or topics to cover most often and most prominently. For example, if a topic appears regularly on the front pages of newspapers or the covers of magazines or in the “Breaking News” of a…
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An ACTS Prayer
Dear fellow travelers, There are many ways to pray, and my personal prayers are generally highly improvised, but recently something different happened. I very rarely write (or type) out prayers, but when I was organizing a file of verses I have, I realized a sequence of them made a good prayer outline, even following the ACTS outline I learned many years ago: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. The prayer is…
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Why We Pray
Why do Christians pray, and why should they pray? We probably pay a lot more attention to what we are praying than why, and maybe sometimes we don’t pray because we don’t think its necessary. This may happen when we don’t know the why. There are many reasons (many “whys”) we could think of for why Christians should pray, and here are some: Do we pray to tell God what…
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Prayer: A Quint of Quotes
Dear fellow travelers, Here is another “Quint of Quotes” with some of my favorites on prayer, plus a bonus verse: “Prayer is not getting man’s will done in heaven; it is getting God’s will done on earth” – Robert Law “Pray as though everything depended on God, and work as though everything depended on you.” – Saint Augustine “Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers…
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There Goes John Bradford (to Paradise): History for February 24
Born in 1510, John Bradford was a rising Protestant minister during the reign of King Edward VI in England and was well known for his pious dedication and unselfish nature. After studying at Cambridge and preaching regularly around London, he was appointed as Chaplain to the King in 1551. The common expression “There but for the grace of God go I” is often attributed to him and was a reminder…
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