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  • Acting Like Children

    This post was written by Jon Atchison. Becoming a parent changed my understanding of love, patience and re-calibrated my understanding of God’s love for me. If you’re a parent, I imagine you can relate to me in those thoughts and then far beyond. Additionally, I felt more secure in my relationship with God once I…

  • How Parenting Can Change Your Speech (and Make You a Better Person)

    In the post entitled “Guard Your Heart (The Sin of Cursing),” I mentioned how becoming a parent has impacted my speech. In this post, I want to elaborate on that thought and share some related thoughts regarding parenting. Newsflash: Parenting is hard. It’s hard on everybody. It’s hard on the parents, the kids, the siblings,…

  • Guard Your Heart (The Sin of Cursing)

    In the post entitled “Guard Your Heart (Be Careful How You Talk),” we looked at how our speech is determined by our thoughts and that, if we want to make our speech more Christ-like, then we must make our thoughts more Christ-like. Today, I want to look at another aspect of our speech: cursing. Yesterday,…

  • Guard Your Heart (Be Careful How You Talk)

    The Bible says a lot about how we talk and the important role our speech plays in our lives. In the post entitled “Guard Your Heart (How to Keep Yourself from Sin),” I talked about the importance of replacing bad (i.e. worldly) input sources with good ones. Flooding your life with positive influences while ridding…

  • December 19 – 2 Timothy: Paul’s Final Letter

    Reading 2 Tim. 1:1-4:22 Devotional It seems that Paul was once again arrested and had to stand trial, and was apparently sentenced to death as a result of his defense of the gospel. Secular history affirms that Paul died a martyr’s death (a martyr is someone who is killed for a cause—in this case, for…

  • September 8 – Job’s Great Loss

    Reading Job 1:1-3:26 Devotional Today we begin reading the account of Job. Our reading will be taken from the book of Job through the next ten days. It is uncertain when the book of Job was written, but the man Job lived a long, long time ago, hundreds of years before Abraham. Job is referred…

  • Church Notes: Parental Discipline

    Here are my notes from a 2011 church meeting where we discussed the topic of what Scripture says about parental discipline.

  • June 3 – Asa and Jehoshaphat

    Reading 2 Chron. 14:1b-8 1 Kings 14:19-20; 15:25-26, 31, 27-30, 33-34 2 Chron. 14:9-15; 15:1-8, 17-19, 9-16 1 Kings 15:16-22 2 Chron. 16:7-10 1 Kings 16:7, 1-6, 8, 14, 9-10, 15a, 11-13, 20, 15b-19, 21, 31a, 22-29; 21:25-26; 16:34 2 Chron. 16:12, 11, 13-14 1 Kings 15:24b; 22:41-43, 46-47 2 Chron. 20:32-33; 17:2-13a; 18:1a; 17:13b-19…

  • May 25 – The Virtuous Wife

    Reading Joy and Grief – Prov. 14:10, 13; 15:13; 17:22; 18:14; 25:20; 27:11; 29:6 Good News – Prov. 15:30; 25:25 Curiosity – Prov. 27:20 Sayings of Agur, son of Jakeh, an oracle – Prov. 30:1-33 Sayings of King Lemuel – Prov. 31:1-31 Devotional Today’s reading includes the beautiful passage commonly referred to as “The Virtuous…

  • May 24 – Proverbs About Children

    Reading Persons and Attributes Parents and Children – Prov. 1:8-9; 10:1; 11:29; 15:20; 17:2, 6, 21, 25; 19:26; 20:20; 23:22-25; 28:24 The Elderly – Prov. 16:31; 20:29 Women and Wives – Prov. 11:22; 12:4; 14:1; 18:22; 19:13-14; 21:9; 25:24; 21:19; 27:15-16 Kings and Rulers – Prov. 14:28, 35; 16:10, 12-15; 17:7, 11; 19:12; 20:2, 8,…