Devotionals

Imagine You Were God

Imagine you were God — all alone — nothing but you and space. Wouldn’t you want to have others around to keep you company? So you decide to create some other beings. You want to have some intelligent conversation and relationships, so you create them with freedom of choice. Things are perfect. You have a

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What Are Alms?

“Alms” are not some kind of tree, but something you should know about — and do. The Greek word translated alms in the New Testament originally meant mercy or kindness, then came to represent the kind deeds caused by mercy and kindness. So it came to mean charitable giving to the poor — or giving

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Pay Your Teachers

GALATIANS 6:6-7 NLT 6 Those who are taught the word of God should help their teachers by paying them. 7 Don’t be misled. Remember that you can’t ignore God and get away with it. You will always reap what you sow! A law of human behavior is that you will get more of what you

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You Choose!

DEUTERONOMY 30:19 NKJ 19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; Most people don’t realize that God has given them the power to choose whether they will be blessed.

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Another Helper

Who among us could not use another helper? JOHN 14:16-18 NKJ 16 “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever, 17 “even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him,

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God Can Speed Things Up

LUKE 8:11 NLT 11 “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God’s word. MARK 4:26 NLT 26 Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. To help us understand how God’s Word and His kingdom operate, Jesus used a seed. And normally, for

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