The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. 1 Sam. 8:7 I am blessed and honored to once again...
O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting. I Chron. 16:34 … and when they praised the Lord saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,” then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud … 2 Chron. 5:13b … and they...
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose Or pierce his jaw with a hook? Job 42:12 Having spent the first semester of last year’s Sunday school engaged in a discussion of Biblical hermeneutics – the science of interpretation...
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 I have for about a year now been embarked upon a quest to learn how to pray. I...
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb (sometimes attributed to Lao Tzu). And Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” Mark 1:17 As Summer wanes, our attention draws...
Daniel Defoe was a nonconformist Dissenter who lived and wrote political essays and social commentary in late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century England. He published his first novel, Robinson Crusoe, when he was almost sixty years old. While many of us harbor adolescent recollections of this book as an adventure story involving a sailor shipwrecked on a...
I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too difficult for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil. 2 Sam. 3:39. Joab commanded the Israelite army under King David. He was David’s contemporary but also his nephew, the son of David’s oldest sister,...
by Doug Rose (Ephesians 5:1-21) Arise from the dead; Sleeper, awake, And on you Christ will shine. Walk in love, Just as Christ loved you, And gave Himself up to be thine. You were formerly in darkness, In the LORD you are light; Walk as children of God Whose fruit is truth and good...
by Doug Rose Necessity will make us all forsworn Three thousand times within this three years’ space; For every man with his affects is born, Not by might mastered, but by special grace. Wm. Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1.1.147 – 150. My good Son, know this, thou art not able to do these...
by Doug Rose Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24) Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and Word of God, whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of the disability in himself...
