Truth For The Heart
Week 18 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. As I read through the Bible this year, I’m writing down some of my thoughts to encourage you to read the Bible. And if you didn’t start on January 1, that’s not important—you can begin right now. As Jesus was praying the night before He […]
Read More“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22–23 Yesterday I told a former pastor that I’d love to see pastors take the nine qualities Paul lists as the fruit of the Spirit and tell their churches they were […]
Read MoreThere are people in the shadows of many churches: the poor, the afflicted, the widows and singles, the married couples in difficulty, the parents and children in crisis, the jobless, the handicapped, the life-scarred, the strugglers—the different. Christians who don’t fit in and who live in the shadows. These are the people who persevere sometimes […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 17: Thursday Thursday’s Bible reading is Job 33–34. This is another post to add to my list of catch up. The last few weeks have been quite difficult. Thanks for understanding. May God bless you as you read His Word. _________ Isaiah 42 Photograph: ChristianPhotos.net – Free High […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 17: Sunday “You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on […]
Read MoreWeek 17 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. As I read through the Bible this year, I’m writing down some of my thoughts to encourage you to read the Bible. And if you didn’t start on January 1, that’s not important—you can begin right now. Easter Sunday is a wonderful day to begin […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 16: Friday The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 Friday’s Bible reading is Jeremiah 17–21. Last September, in Fruit, I contrasted Jeremiah 17:5–8 with Psalm 1. These chapters contain many other well-known passages from this prophet, including […]
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Kindling for Candles 