Pride Goes Before A… CRASH
Pride can lift us up. It can also take us right into the ground. If you have crashed, it’s time for a checkup from the neck up. […]
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August 14, 2025 — Sparrow Thoughts
“Like a fluttering sparrow…, an undeserved curse does not come to rest” (Prov 26:2, BSB). In this first round of talks, do Job’s friends save the best till last? Hardly. Zophar’s comments are thankfully the shortest, but they are also the toughest to swallow. He feels no obligation to fortify his statements with the supernatural (as […]
August 14
CHRIST the COMFORTER: “May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself…comfort your hearts”(2 Thess 2:16-17). Bob Greene (Chicago Tribune, Aug 1987), tells the following. Douglas Maurer, age 15, of Creve Coeur, MO, was diagnosed with leukemia. The doctors told him that he would have to undergo chemotherapy, that he would go bald and his body would most […]
August 14 Petition Mission
“Those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4:8). But the striking thing is this: we are not only the sowers; we are also the field of harvest! Carlyle wrote: “One cannot do a mean thing or think a base thought without becoming like the thing he thinks or does.… A miser […]
August 14
The Psalms are often used as Messianic proofs in the preaching of our Lord and His disciples. Christ said to His own, “Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms” (Lk 24:44). Risto Santala (The Messiah in the OT, p. 108) writes: “The New […]
August 13, 2025 — As Dark As Darkness Itself
Who released “those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Heb 2:15)? Job uses words with such rich meaning—especially when he’s talking about life having no meaning! In a way, he reminds me of the atheist who uses his intelligence to prove there’s no intelligence behind the universe. Or the philosopher who […]
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August 13
CHRIST IS CALLING: “The Master has come and is calling for you” (Jn 11:28). Peter deeply appreciated the Lord’s calling on his life and made it a theme of his letters. He tells us that we have every reason to “proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” […]
August 13 Petition Mission
“Your fruit is found in Me” (Hos 14:8). At the end of Hosea’s prophecy, this ray of hope shines on beleaguered Israel. From the opening command in Genesis, “Be fruitful,” to the scene in the Jerusalem Above, where a tree grows “which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month” (Rev 22:2), God […]
August 13
“Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean” (Lk 5:12). Bruce Olson was raised in a Lutheran family in Minneapolis. He heard sermons on the need for change, but never about the power to change. One night at age 14, he prayed, “Lord, everything is messed up around me. And its messed up […]