Philemon and Pablo
Restoring What Was Broken Reading Time: 4 minutesBase Texts: Philemon 1:1–25 and 2 Samuel 11:1 Paul Prepares the Ground: Affirms, Honors, and Restores Relationships 📖 Philemon 1:1–7 Before asking something difficult, the apostle Paul affirms Philemon’s heart. He does...
Making Good Decisions
Making Good Decisions Trust in the LORD with all your heartand lean not on your own understanding.(Proverbs 3:5) Some decisions in life seem simple. Others carry weight and lasting consequences. Every day we face choices that shape our present and define our future....
Restoration After Failure
Reading time: 3 minutesBase text: John 21:1–19 Peter’s denial left him unable to believe that Jesus could forgive him…but Jesus had other plans. Tarisio’s Restored Violin In the 19th century, an Italian collector named Luigi Tarisio traveled across Europe searching...
GOD OF SECOND CHANCES
David and Bathsheba Reading time: 4–5 minutesBase text: 2 Samuel 11:1–25; 2 Samuel 12 The Bible does not hide the failures of its heroes. On the contrary, it reveals them to teach us that no one is exempt from falling, but also to show us that God is a God of...
God First: The Right Order of the Heart
Reading time: 3 minutes Scripture References: Matthew 6:33 | Proverbs 13:3 | Genesis 3:8–10 | Mark 10:17–22 | Proverbs 3:9 Introduction God is a God of order.When something becomes disordered in our spiritual life, the problem is almost never what we are doing, but...
Who Told You That?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Base Reading: Genesis 3:11 / Luke 6:38 / Mark 6:38 / 2 Kings 4:1–7 Reflection Many times, we walk through life believing things God never said. “I can’t.”“It’s not enough.”“That’s just the way I am.”“This is impossible.” But today the Holy...
Relationship or Commitment
Reading Time: 4–5 minutes Base Text: John 14:15–23 “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”(John 14:23) God did not call us to live a superficial faith or a Christian life based only...
Sticky Faith From: Consumers to Disciples
Reading time: 3–4 minutes Scripture references:📖 Luke 9:23📖 Matthew 4:19📖 Hebrews 10:24 True faith is not a faith that is only observed, consumed, or enjoyed from a place of comfort. Transforming faith is sticky faith—a faith that clings to the heart, is lived out...
“A Faith That Sticks: God’s Call for This New Year”
Reading time: 3 minutes Base Text:• Acts 2:42–47• Matthew 28:19–20• Hebrews 10:24–25 God does not call us only to attend church, but to be the church—living an authentic faith that remains in us and multiplies in others. INTRODUCTION The beginning of a new year always...
Accustomed to the Darkness
Reading time: 3 minutes Main Scripture:“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,upon them a light has shined.”Isaiah 9:2 There are moments in life when darkness no longer frightens us… because we...