Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom
Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom
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November 17 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with Your generous spirit. — Psalm 51:12

The Sparkle Of The Soul

Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to maintain eye contact with someone, especially someone you don’t know? Perhaps we find this so difficult because it feels so intimate. Some have said that the eye is the window of the soul, so perhaps when someone gazes into our eyes, we feel vulnerable, as if that person can see all our deepest secrets. And perhaps that’s why, when we fall into sin, we can’t maintain eye contact... More
November 16 And He said to them, ‘Take heed and beware of covetousness…’ — Luke 12:15

Take Heed

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you put yourself in too much debt? Or have you ever fudged a little on your taxes so you could squirrel away some money to buy something for yourself? Think for a moment: What desire fuels these actions? Could it be covetousness? Jesus says, “Beware of covetousness,” which is defined as an “ inordinate desire to have something.” It’s an easy sin to hide, but... More
November 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. — Psalm 116:15

Taking The Fear Out Of Death

Have you ever considered the great contrast between how the unbeliever faces death and how the Christian does? Read these last words of several unbelievers, and contrast them with those of Christians. Marabeua, unbeliever: “Give me laudanum [a narcotic painkiller used in past centuries] that I may not think of eternity.” David Brainerd, missionary: “I am going into eternity, and it is sweet to me to think of... More
November 14 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ — Jeremiah 33:3

Attempt Great Things For God

God is a great and wondrous God who delights in great and marvelous things. He wants to do great and mighty things through you and through me. However, many of us never quite grasp God’s glory and greatness; thus, we miss spiritual growth and tremendous adventures. Do you know that God can and wants to do great things, using you as His instrument? God tells us to attempt great things for Him by faith. And only through faith can we... More
November 13 ‘…baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.’ — Matthew 28:19

The Trinity

Have you ever tried to explain the Trinity to someone unfamiliar with the idea? If you have, then you probably know how difficult it is to define. Not even a rocket scientist could plumb its depths and comprehend it. In fact, we humans won’t fully understand it until we meet God in heaven. Recently, a lady said to me, “We really shouldn’t talk about Jesus being God, because when He was on earth, God was in heaven,... More
November 12 My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands; for length of days and long life and peace they will add to you. — Proverbs 3:1-2

A Long And Happy Life

Solomon admonishes us to never forget God's law and to keep it safely in our hearts. However, so many of us, creatures of the divine Creator, brashly ignore God's commandments. Do you know that half of the people in this country cannot name even five of the Ten Commandments? Are you one of those people? God wants us to know His law, but He doesn't want us just to memorize it so we can recite it by rote. He wants us to have it in our... More
November 11 ‘The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.’ — Jeremiah 18:7?8

A Time To Remember

Do you ever stop and think about the freedom you enjoy in this country? Have you ever thanked someone who has fought for that freedom? We owe a tremendous debt to those men and women who have served in our armed forces so that we might remain free in this country. And yet we so often forget their sacrifices. All have sacrificed time. Some have sacrificed limbs or eyesight or hearing. Just walk around a veterans’ hospital one day, and... More