May 25
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” As a child, I played a game where I would be blindfolded and another child would lead me through an obstacle course. I always wanted my “leader” to be a real good friend, someone I could trust! The same is true […]
May 24
“In my Father’s house there are many rooms, if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.” If there are many rooms in our Father’s house, perhaps we should make an effort to really get to know different people here on earth. One of […]
May 23
Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, We see, your sin remains.” This passage follows a pretty humorous exchange between a formerly blind man and […]
May 22
But Thomas was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger in the mark of the nail and my hand in his side, I will not […]
May 21
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” For me, this is probably one of the most important scriptures in the Bible. When I was growing up in Tennessee in […]
May 20
“With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts […]
May 19
“For God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall never be shaken.” I can never remember a time when God and my Lord Jesus Christ weren’t a real part of my life, and lived in my house just as […]
May 18
“Zeal without knowledge is not good; a person who moves too quickly may go the wrong way.” We often move through life, rushing ahead into the unknown. We make choices without thinking about what we really want, and we make many mistakes along the way. When we’re young, we sometimes feel that we have to […]
May 17
“Let no one underrate you because you are young, but be to believers an example in speech and behavior, in love, fidelity and purity.” When I was in college, I had the opportunity to be a part of a Methodist sponsored camp called UM ARMY. We would go out in late July to little east […]
May 16
“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” Sometimes we find ourselves searching for those things the world has to offer: recognition, achievement, or love. Many times we find them but they are not as sweet as we imagined. But when we seek God with all […]