Different plans Have you ever once desired to have it all? Well, at one time or another each of us has dreamed big dreams. Have any come through? Several in my case. How about you? At twenty, I planned to be a millionaire by age thirty. That would have been 1967. Didn’t happen. Earlier in […]
Worldview dictates your response As we see things play out across the world, even in our own country, a natural tendency would be to be depressed and anxious. Everyone has a choice…a natural worldview, or a Christian worldview. How you respond to events depends on the lens through which you’re looking. Frankly, if it wasn’t […]
There is an expression that we’ve all heard. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!” Same with the Body of Christ and its growth throughout the world. It all began with the persecution of our Savior, Jesus. He endured it even to the point of death on the cross. But we know that he was […]
Experience the grace and sufficiency of Christ Contentment seems to escape most of us, if not all. The desire for more is so strong. And to have a difficult situation be removed without any pain or suffering. So many situations that rob us of being content. What’s yours? Paul, addressing the Philippians, made them aware […]
By Bill C. Dotson With a testimony from my friend, Stan Barth Losing a second language Last week my devotional was on II Chronicles 7.14. Interestingly, my friend, Stan, responded with what you will read below. With his permission I am including it in our message today. His thoughts should a challenge to each of […]
Suffering leads to repentance Friends, I believe we are at the point that Israel was when Solomon beseeched the Lord on behalf of the people. The message from God to Israel right before verse 14 was this. “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or […]
No Greater Love John 15 in total is one of the most revealing, instructional, personal chapters in the New Testament. It is known as the ‘vine and branch’ text. They are all words of Jesus to his disciples. He demonstrates how we can produce fruit, more fruit and much fruit in our lives. Simply by […]
Absentee father When I first was led by the Lord to write From Faith to Faith, I believed that the number one issue in America was the absentee father. Having spent the past fifty years teaching Biblical truth to men in Texas prisons, juvenile detention centers and homeless shelters, I’m still convinced of this as […]
Stone of help In I Samuel 7.12, it is recorded that after God provided a great victory over the Philistines, Samuel took a stone and set it upright and he named it Ebenezer, “the Lord has helped us to this point.” Ebenezer primarily means ‘stone of help’. Why would Samuel have been led to do […]
Rewards Not sure how any of us were that engaged in the Winter Olympics in China. But as of today, it has ended. Three weeks of joy, heartbreak, confusion and all other forms of emotion. As you read about the investment these athletes and their trainers make, you have to be amazed. The actual time […]