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  • 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 20 – Letters from James and Jude

    Reading James 1:1-5:20 Jude 1-25 Devotional At the same time Paul and other apostles are working to spread the gospel, other important leaders within the church are also working and writing. Two of these men are James and Jude. These men are generally believed to be the James and Jude who were brothers of Jesus,…

  • 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…

  • June 24 – Isaiah Volunteers to be GOD’s Messenger

    Reading Isa. 5:24-30; 1:27-31; 2:19-3:7; 1:18-20; 4:2-6; 2:1-5 2 Kings 15:19-28 2 Chron. 26:22-23a 2 Kings 15:7b, 32-33 2 Chron. 27:2 Isa. 6:1-13 2 Chron. 27:3-6 Devotional GOD’s message against His people and their coming punishment continues through the prophet Isaiah: 24 Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks…

  • May 21 – Wise and Truthful Speech

    Reading Wise and Foolish Talk – Prov. 14:3; 15:2, 7; 16:23; 18:6-7; 19:1; 23:15-16 Righteous and Wicked Talk – Prov. 10:20-21, 31-32; 11:11; 12:13-14; 13:2; 15:28; 17:4 Appropriate Speech – Prov. 15:23; 16:21, 24; 25:11; 27:14 Maintaining Silence – Prov. 10:19; 12:23; 13:3; 17:28; 18:13; 21:23 Controlled Speech – Prov. 15:1; 17:27; 25:15; 26:28; 28:23;…

  • May 20 – Self-control, Patience and Tempers

    Reading Self-control – Prov. 25:28; 29:11 Rashness – Prov. 20:25; 21:5; 25:8; 29:20 Temper and Patience – Prov. 12:16; 14:16-17; 14:29; 15:18; 16:32; 19:11, 19; 22:24-25; 29:8, 22 Drunkenness and gluttony – Prov. 20:1; 23:19-21, 29-35 Adultery – Prov. 5:1-23; 6:20-35; 7:1-27; 22:14 Prostitution – Prov. 23:26-28; 29:3 Devotional There are countless critically-important teachings contained…

  • March 21 – Don’t be Quick to Promise

    Reading Judg. 10:1-12:12 Devotional After Gideon’s son Abimelech died, Tola and then Jair led Israel as judges for a period of time. Then the Israelites reverted back to their evil ways and GOD sent the Ammonites to oppress them. After 18 years they cried out to GOD but this time GOD’s response was different than…