Category Archives: Biblical

Today I read for part of my devotion Acts 5:1-11, the story of Ananias and Sapphira and how they sold their land and withheld some form the disciples. I was struck by this as always. Why would God do this to these two people?Ananias did not eve say a word to Peter and was struckContinue reading “Are you willing?”

I just read Matthew 4:1-11. This is an interesting passage about the Devil tempting Jesus. However Dr. Richard Carlson and Dr. Mark Vital Hoffman taught me a few things in seminary which do not come across in our English translations of this text which impact its meaning and how we should live greatly. The littlestContinue reading “If or Since”

We hear this and I think instantly of seat belt laws. In Ohio there are signs that ask “What is holding you back?” and they have an image of a seat belt, but I wonder this in a different way. I read a devotional this morning about being generous, and the woman Elijah encountered duringContinue reading “What is holding you back?”

I just read a great article by Dr. John C. Maxwell on fear. He ends it with a quote of Eleanor Rossevelt, “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. IContinue reading “Fear”

I have been thinking about Jesus saying, “I am the light of the world” in John chapter 8. This comes between the story of the woman caught in adultery and the healing of the blind man. Jesus says that he is the light of the world, and if you walk in the light there willContinue reading “Accentuate the Positive”

This is really cool, and shows us how much we might miss if we only read and think upon the scriptures by ourselves, or only once…

How far is the East from the West? As Mark says in the video, you can only go so far north before you start going south, and only so far south until you start going north, but if you go east, you always go east, and west you always go west.