Posted in family on Feb 18th, 2011
Every time I read Mark 3:21, I imagine a pained look on Jesus’ face.
This is the place in the Gospels where His family is saying that Jesus has lost His mind and needs to be taken to back to the family compound.
The preceding verse describes how Jesus and His apostles are so caught up one […]
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Posted in family on Jan 19th, 2011
It’s such a short fragment of a verse but it spoke loudly to me this morning.
“He blesses the home of the righteous” (Proverbs 3:33)
As soon as I read this, my mind zoomed through memories of times past when my heart was thrilled by God’s blessings upon my home. Times when I wrestled […]
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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click Some kind of dad, huh?
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King Hezekiah gets a really lousy grade as a dad in my opinion.
Yes, he did some good things during his reign over Israel’s Southern Kingdom centuries after King David. But he threw all that good will away, in my book, when he said […]
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Never give up on a relative’s spiritual awakening
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One of the toughest challenges a Christian can face is a family member’s rejection of Christ as Lord.
It pains the believer in a variety of ways, as many of you know firsthand.
Yet, if the believer’s faith in God […]
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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click here — Not your mamma’s faith
Luke 11:27 records a nice thing spoken by an unnamed woman toward Jesus — “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”
How Jesus responded, however, had to have surprised everyone there. It certainly would have surprised me.
There was […]
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