In this day and age we are OBSESSED with dieting. We are constantly on the look out for healthier living and eating. This obsession has even spilled over into “fasting” diets, with the singular focus of self health and weight loss. One particular fast that I was recently discussing was the “Daniel Fast”. The idea is to model your diet after what Daniel ate when he came under Babylonia ...
In 1 Samuel 16 we meet King David for the first time. Saul had disobeyed God and therefore was rejected by God as king over Israel. God tells Samuel to go to Bethlehemite because he has provided a new king. Samuel did what the Lord commanded and went looking for the new king. When he gets there he connects with Jesse and his sons. When he looked on the first son, Eliab, he thought "th ...
In the book of Colossians, at the end of chapter 2, Paul reasons with the church about identifying with practices that based themselves in arrogance and self glorification rather than in Christ. He specifically calls out “asceticism” which basically says that a person would be highly self disciplined or abstinent from certain practices/foods/drinks in order to appear above reproach fo ...
I’ve heard and read the passage in Acts 16:16-38 of Paul and Silas being jailed many times. In my recollection, most of what I remember being discussed is how even in suffering Paul and Silas prayed and sang. I think there is GREAT testimony in that fact. Today when I read it again, I really focused on something different and I think it is the greatest miracle in the passage. To gi ...
My family and I are working our way through James in our family Bibile study. Last night we came across this passage of scripture and spent some time talking about it. We came to this simple conclusion. To say we have faith is easy... Talk can be cheap. However, to live as though we have faith is hard... it is not cheap. This is why people are some interested in action over talk. What ...
