August 24th, 2022
Read: James 5:7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. I grew up on a farm and my […]
August 23rd, 2022
Read: 2 Timothy 2:15 Do your best to be the kind of person God will accept, and give yourself to him. Be a worker who has no reason to be ashamed of his work, one who applies the true teaching in the right way. ‘Honest Abe’ was a nickname given to Abraham Lincoln. You may […]
August 22nd, 2022
Read: James 5:9 Do not complain against one another, my friends, so that God will not judge you. The Judge is near, ready to appear. He did it! No, she did it! But he did it first! How many of us, or our children or grandchildren, have said those very words? We struggle through those […]
August 21st, 2022
Read: 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. Money is the root of all evil. How many times have you heard that phrase? If we carefully take another look at […]
August 20th, 2022
True submission to God means understanding who we are and who He is. God is looking at us and asking us to look back at Him. We might try to throw up obstacles in the way of His penetrating, perfect vision, but He can see through every excuse: the devil, those people over there, our […]
August 19th, 2022
Read: James 4:13-15 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while […]
August 18th, 2022
Read: James 4:11-12 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one lawgiver and judge who is […]
August 17th, 2022
Read: James 4:7-10 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into […]
August 16th, 2022
Read: James 4:5-6 Or do you suppose that it is for nothing that the scripture says, ‘God yearns jealously for the spirit that he has made to dwell in us’? But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ If you have a child […]
August 15th, 2022
Read: James 4:3-4 NRSV You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures. Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Full submission […]
