Thursday, April 18, 2019

Today is Maundy Thursday and tonight many churches will acknowledge this with special services commemorating Jesus’ instituting the Last Supper. While we may focus on that final meal, that’s not all that happened that night. Later Jesus would go to the...

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

What we will celebrate on Good Friday, is our rescue. As surely as a firefighter may have pulled you out of a burning building, Jesus came to save us from disaster. Hear Colossians 1: 13-14: “For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us...

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Do you qualify? Are you good enough? To display at certain craft fairs you have to have your wares “juried”; judged beforehand by others to see if they meet a minimum standard. To enter a NASCAR race you first must qualify by maintaining minimum speed on...

Monday, April 15, 2019

Today is Marathon Monday–the running of the Boston Marathon. Some 30,000 runners are expected to compete and they all have one thing in common: each one has prepared for this race. Not all expect to win; many know that they may not even finish, but all have...

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Yesterday I encouraged you to pray diligently for someone, to have that person filled with the knowledge of God’s will. That’s really step #2. Step #1 is to pray for that person in order that he/she comes to believe in Jesus as personal Savior. Apart from...

Saturday, April 13, 2019

One of the best things you can do for someone is to pray. I know it sounds trite–most of us already have a prayer list; the problem is that sometimes we aren’t as diligent as we might be in our prayers. Our intentions are good, but things get in the way:...