“For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.” (Isa 18:5) I don't know about you, but pruning knives, being cut down,...
The following Scriptural Nugget is the seventh in a mini-series based on John 11. "The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, 'Take off the grave clothes and let him go.'" (John 11:44)...
Ephesians 4:22-24: "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true...
"And the Lord said , Simon , Simon , behold , Satan hath desired to have you , that he may sift you as wheat " (Luke 22:31) I'm not much into the History Channel but one day my children were watching it and it was speaking about one of World War II's most dramatic...
If we laid bare our thoughts what would they reveal? If our minds could be read daily like a book what would they tell others about us? "….it is the thought-life that pollutes. For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts of lust, theft, murder, adultery,...
"Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything." 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11 A year ago this month Sue and I visited a thirteen-year-old girl in the teen psychiatric unit at...
Today's mini-sermon is the final part of the 12-part series on the 9th chapter of John. "Jesus said, ‘For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.’” (John 9:39) Do you remember the story of the blind men and...
Zechariah 3: 1-3 (NKJV) "Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. And the LORD said to Satan, 'The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke...
"Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed." (Luke 20:18) I have always puzzled over this verse. I've read what the commentaries say on the subject, but a few days ago when I read this text anew, I was...
"To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes." Isaiah 61:3 (KJV). I sold my house shortly before my husband and I were married five and a half years ago. I was going to temporarily move into an apartment, so I needed to eliminate many of the...