“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2: 15 KJV)
Are you a daily Bible reader? How much time do you spend each day reading the Bible? An hour? Half hour? Five minutes? A minute? No time?
Woodrow Wilson once said, “A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible.” A man who does not read God’s Word has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
“The unfolding (opening) …
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Jesus uses the image of a beam hanging out of one brother’s eye while trying to remove a speck in another’s eye as a humorous impossibility. The Master Teacher sure could get an audience’s attention!
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- It is a rewarding privilege
- If we don’t, we cast our vote to stop scheduling it.
- Our influence and contributions to the Lord’s work is dependent on attending.
- It helps lead the lost to Christ.
- Jesus would attend if He were here.
- It’s not optional.
- It stabilizes our homes.
- It part of the example we set.
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I just noticed on the Monster.com job search site that their catch phrase is “Your calling is calling.” It is somewhat of a hobby of mine to find the Biblical principal that a successful enterprise based their business model on (whether they know it or not). As Christians we can leverage our faith in God’s plan by building a life around the examples He has given us in His word.
Take for example Esther, and the opportunity she seized to save her people from destruction by performing a risky action. Her cousin Mordecai had asked her to plead with the …
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Having encamped on the shore of the Red Sea following their deliverance from Egypt and looking back seeing Pharaoh and his army “marching after them,” the Israelites “were terrified and cried out to the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10) They submitted this question to Moses, ”What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?” (verse 11) “Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians?’ It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert,” they said. (verse 12)
Have they so soon forgotten God’s power manifested in …
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