For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in Him but also suffer for His sake.PHILIPPIANS 1:29+Take up Your CrossWe need to have a definition of what "taki...  Read More

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!PSALM 37:7+When the Wicked SucceedIt is as if [th...  Read More

Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.PSALM 118:5+Learning to CallWe read: "I called upon the Lord." You must learn to call. Do not sit by yourself or lie on a ...  Read More

"When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the wor...  Read More

The word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.1 CORINTHIANS 1:18+The Lofty and the LowlySt. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:1-2, "I decid...  Read More

The people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.ZECHARIAH 10:2+Beware of False Shepherds[The people] are driven away and scattered like a flock into various kinds of superstiti...  Read More

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him . . ..ROMANS 14:1+The Christian LawNo outward rule can maintain itself without an inward gentleness (though the hand be stern), much less the governmen...  Read More

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.1 CORINTHIANS 4:4+The Spirit Giveth LifeThe meaning of . . . "the spirit giveth life" becomes cl...  Read More

What we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord.2 CORINTHIANS 4:5+Setting an ExampleSt. Paul says: "We do not want to lord it over your faith" (2 Corinthians 1:24) and "What we proclaim is...  Read More

For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is done in faithfulness.PSALM 33:4+God Is TrueThe fact that He promised us the Son was the sheer mercy of God. And so He Himself, in His coming, i...  Read More

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in His kindness.ROMANS 11:22+Take the High RoadThe Pharisee cann...  Read More

Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means!ROMANS 6:1-2+No Sin AllowedIt is godless reasoning to say: "If our sin praises the mercy of God, then let us sin." For God does not want or...  Read More