Thoughts By Men

2024-06-15

Patient People

God is being patient with you (2 Peter 3:9). And if God is being patient with you, can’t you pass on some patience to others? Of course you can! Because before love is anything else—love is patient!

2024-06-13

Focus on Today

We are “culturalized” into worrying more because we want more. We seem to never be satisfied, never secure.

2024-06-12

Trust in the Lord

Prayer: Abba Father, please give me courage to not lean on my own understanding. I know my thinking can be flawed and what I intend for good can blow up in my face. Please bless me with wisdom and insight as I seek to live for you in today's confusing and immoral world. In Jesus' name. Amen.

2024-06-11

Before

A Poem by Roy Lessin: BEFORE: Before you were born, I knew you by name; before you turned toward Me, I called to you;

2024-06-10

Learning to Listen

If you want to be just like Jesus, let God have you. Spend time listening for him until you receive your lesson for the day—then apply it.

2024-06-09

Is your Spiritual Battery Dead?

“Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.” Colossians 3:2

2024-06-07

Helper of Mankind

One morning a few years ago, when going for a walk, I happened to notice a boy pulling a wagon. In the wagon was a smaller boy and a bunch of newspapers. As they went along they would stop in front of each house and the bigger boy would tell the smaller boy to take a paper up to the steps of the house. At times...

2024-06-06

The Beautiful Thing about Commitment

Living for Christ can seem hard, even impractical at times. We tend to focus on what we can do to earn our way to God, rather than accepting His free gift of salvation

2024-06-05

Welcoming Gently

Dear God, thank you for sending Jesus to show us a life worth imitating. May I bow in awe of His glory and from that place open my heart to people.

2024-06-04

Marinated in the Word

take time to immerse yourself in the Word. Do it deliberately and regularly and the finished product will have a heavenly aroma.

2024-06-03

Christ, Our Life

For many, Christianity is simply the religion into which they were born. For others, Christ is Savior and more: He is their very life (Colossians 3:4). When Jesus is your life you cannot go on without Him.

2024-06-02

The Goal

The way to walk a tightrope is to keep ones sight on the goal, never looking down to the ground nor over our shoulder at what is behind.

2024-06-01

Complaining in the Wilderness

“Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize you.” Philippians 2:14

2024-05-31

Heart’s Desires

You have found your delight in the Lord, and He has placed within you the desires that are from Him, for Him, and can only be fulfilled by Him.

2024-05-29

Contentment

What if God’s only gift to you were his grace to save you? Would you be content?

2024-05-28

Unoffendable

No one ever says, "Today, I think I'll try to develop a hardened heart of stone." Such things enter our souls through stealth.

2024-05-27

God Is Faithful

God is faithful. We can trust his promises to be kept and his purposes to be good. How do we know? The sunrise each morning is a reminder that the Father of heaven and earth is at work keeping his universe in working order.

2024-05-26

Loving as God Loves

Our friends need a flood of tears. Our children need to be covered in the oil of our love. But if we haven’t received these things ourselves,

2024-05-25

Becoming A People of Mercy

Mercy, Not Wrath. The church was created not to fulfill God's wrath, but to complete His mercy. True prayer is born of love and comes in the midst of need.

2024-05-24

Get Up and Get Out

As a friend of mine said once, almost nonchalantly, a true Christian is choosing the most dangerous occupation in the world.

2024-05-23

The Mission Field Next Door

Lord, Open my eyes that I might see the mission field before me and then give me the conviction and the courage to go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Amen.

2024-05-22

The Way of Wisdom

The world's wisdom, great as it may be cannot begin to measure up to the divine wisdom available to one who faithfully reads, studies, and meditates upon God's Word

2024-05-21

Kind and Compassionate

Thought: Be kind and compassionate — two qualities that seem to be in short supply. Maybe it's because we hold up the wrong heroes. Unfortunately these two qualities are often seen as sig

2024-05-20

Luke Warm

According to Goldilocks, being lukewarm is just right. But what is good for porridge isn’t good for our spiritual lives.

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