SCRIPTURE: “The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober minded for prayer. “   1 Peter 4:7 (HCSB) Do you ever chuckle at the sight of long-passed expiration dates on products you’ve spotted on your medicine cabinet or food pantry?  Things that expired four months ago are one thing; to see an expiration date from ten or MORE years ago is something else!  (We’ve seen both in our hom...  Read More

Scripture:  Ecclesiastes 3:11 [NASB] - He has made EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL in it's time.  He has also set eternity in their heart, without which man will not find out the work which GOD has done from the beginning even to the end.Well, this is the month where some of us have had, or are still having the experience of that 'holiday', where 'trick, or treat' is sprung.  I can imagine the hopeful parent...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “….the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”  He said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD…for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword.  And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”  1 Kings 19:9b, 10  (NASB) Life for the Christ follower is in certain...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  And when He saw the multitudes, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him and opening His mouth He began to teach them.”  Matthew 5:1,2 (NASB) Do you remember several years ago when the phrase ‘I’m blessed and highly favored!’ was being uttered all over the place?  Did you ever wonder what they meant exactly by that declaration?  Was it their way of s...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  Therefore, leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.” (Hebrews 6:1 NASB)  Do you find the many juxtapositions in Scripture compelling? God’s Word is full of verses that place side by side two comparative sets of conditions or principles. We are urged to pursue the o...  Read More

Scripture Acts 9:3-6 -  “And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 6 And he trembling and astonishe...  Read More

Scripture:  Matthew 6:34 [the living bible] -  "So don't be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time."  What can one do in twenty-five minutes? I can, and recently have, eaten a meal, watched an episode of 'the Rifleman', waited in line at the ATM, and enjoyed a devotional journey from the GBFC team's input. I can cut my front lawn, and I can wash, br...  Read More

(Scripture) Acts 13:1-5:  1 Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 Then, having fasted...  Read More

Scripture:Genesis 29:16-18 - And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel, and said 'I will serve thee [Laban]seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter."It has been stated, even sung about, how 'beauty is only skin deep' [yeah, yeah, yeah!]. And we've h...  Read More

Scripture:  John 17:21 says “…that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.”“Time is significant because it is so rare” someone has stated.  Time can never be recycled, yet it is our friend. Time enables us to make wrongs – right, hurts to heal, attitudes to change and Christlike character t...  Read More

Scripture: Psalm 95:4, 5-  In His hand are the deep places of the earth: The heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.Approaching this subject, it seems appropriate to begin at the beginning according to the Bible. The first book of Moses is called Genesis, a Greek word meaning “origin,” “source,” “beginning.” For it is recorded that in t...  Read More

Scripture: Romans 12:3 HCSB  - For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.Unmerited favor … “God’s favor toward the unworthy” … God’s choice to forgive us, bless us, keep us, provide for us and protect us even though we don't deserve it. Simply put, ...  Read More

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Scripture: Psalms 91:4-6 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.As I collect my thoughts from a long dayMore and more I realize who keeps me okayIt...  Read More

Scripture:  2 Timothy 1:9 – Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.Titus 2:11-12 – For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the...  Read More

Scripture:  Galatians 5:1, 13-16 -"Standfast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage... ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour...  Read More

Scripture:  The Lord sent this message to Jonah, the son of Amittai:  “Go to the great city of Nineveh and give them this announcement from the Lord:  ‘I am going to destroy you, for your wickedness rises before me; it smells to highest heaven.’” JONAH 1:1 (TLB)    The Ninevites, reputedly a very wicked and barbaric people, surprisingly HEEDED the warning of Jonah, the reluctant prophet who WANTED...  Read More

Scripture: Hebrews 2:1 (NKJV) -  “Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.”        Did you know that as early as the mid-1940s, humankind had developed two major ways of predicting the position and intensity of hurricanes?  These methods involved something called aircraft reconnaissance and computer technology—the latter of which emerged in the ...  Read More