Jump Start # 2536
Jump Start # 2536 Acts 11:29 “And in the proportion that any of the disciples had means, each of them determined to send a contribution for the relief of the brethren living in Judea.” Our verse today is about the church at Antioch. It was an amazing congregation. It was a church of “firsts.” It […]
Jump Start # 2531
Jump Start # 2531 1 Thessalonians 4:14 “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.” This is a tough one to write. I pray that it comes out right. Sometimes things happens in life that leave us speechless. This […]
Jump Start # 2530
Jump Start # 2530 1 Timothy 4:15 “take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident to all.” Earlier in the week I wrote about the subject of anger. Specifically, when our anger is noticed by others. It leaves a mark and it ruins the good impression that […]
Jump Start # 2529
Jump Start # 2529 Matthew 25:46 “These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” I was reading an old book the other day. It was published in 1840 and my copy was a first edition, 1840. It is about an early New England preacher, Elias Smith. It’s his story written […]
Jump Start # 2527
Jump Start # 2527 James 1:20 “for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.” I was watching the President’s State of the Union speech last week. And, as everyone is talking about, at the end, the Speaker of the House ripped her copy of his speech in front of everyone. That […]