Showing posts with label Christ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christ. Show all posts

7.26.2021

If Scripture Is Simple And Easily Understood, Why Do People Make It Hard And Refuse to Understand?


This scripture is exceedingly simple to understand, yet people refuse to understand it. 

Why? 

Because human beings become convinced that their actions have no consequences - they can do whatever they like with impunity and all will be well because "Jesus is love". 

This is absolutely not the case, so let's take the example of sexual immorality.

12.31.2016

Are You Using New Year's Resolutions To Pacify Behaviors and Issues Better Addressed During the Year?


And so we begin today knowing that tomorrow looms etherially on the horizon as the start of a new year waiting to greet us at the midnight chime of the clock.

For centuries, human beings have made the "new year" a holiday to itself. The age old renderings of 'baby New Year' assure us that we humans, we mere mortals, can redirect our lives at that point in time and begin again anew for yet another year.

8.09.2016

We Are The "Fragrance" of Christ To Others


I read this morning's devotion with much conviction. First, it was Friday's study that I'd not made time to read Friday and, second, because it reminded me that it's not just the people we meet on the street to whom we are the Bible. Above all, we are the Bible to our family.