Distress is common to all people. How common are you? Psalm 71:20 says: You who have shown me many troubles and distresses will revive me again, and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth. I drive by homes regularly that look like they should be in Beirut. When I see them,
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Has God planted a seed of discontent within you? 1 Timothy 6:7-8 says: For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. Discontent has many forms. When money rules our discourse, discontent rears its ugly
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How can you show respect to someone when you don’t want to? Matthew 12 says: 33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are
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Are You Smarter Than a Rock? If you won’t praise God, someone or something else will. Why shouldn’t it be you who gives praise to God? Luke 19 says: 37 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a
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Did God at one time allow unbelievers into Heaven? Acts 17 says: 29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere
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Sometimes you know adversity is coming; many times you don’t. Does it make it easier to deal with if you know it’s coming, or is that just more time to worry, agonize, and plan a way out of having to deal with it? Proverbs 24:10 says: If you faint in the day of adversity, your
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How do you think Mary felt to have other people invite other people to peek in on her family right after she gave birth? Luke 2 says: 15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened,
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