December 27: “Refusing to Stir Up Anger”

December 27, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

Proverbs 30:33 (NLT): “As the beating of cream yields butter and striking the nose causes bleeding, so stirring up anger causes quarrels.”

December 20: “Does God Ever Think About Me?”

December 20, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Psalm 139:17-18 (NLT): “How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!”

December 11: “The Problem of God’s Love and Holiness”

December 11, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

Psalm 130:3-4 (NLT): “LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you.”

December 10: “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”

December 10, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

Revelation 2:4-5 (NLT): “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.”

December 7: “A Pastor’s Greatest Source of Happiness”

December 7, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

3 John 4 (NLT): “I could have no greater joy than to hear that my children are following the truth.”

December 4: “A Divine Love Relationship”

December 4, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

1 John 4:9-10 (NLT): “God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”

December 3: “Love and Church Splits”

December 3, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

1 John 3:14-15 (NLT): “If we love our brothers and sisters who are believers, it proves that we have passed from death to life. But a person who has no love is still dead. Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them.”

September 24: “The Trinity and Our Provision”

September 24, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

Ephesians 3:14-15 (NLT): “When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.”

September 15: “Love God More Than People”

September 15, 2021.Reading time 9 minutes.

Galatians 2:11-12 (NLT): “But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile believers, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some friends of James came, Peter wouldn’t eat with the Gentiles anymore. He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision.”