Today’s Word

Down Is Up

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ. Ephesians 4:15  NASB Grow up – “I am in deep repentance,” I heard the voice on the telephone say.  “I didn’t realize how slowly I had been slipping away.  Over time I just…
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Living Stones

Therefore, encourage one another, and build up one another, just as you are also doing. I Thessalonians 5:11  NASB Build up – Every believer is in the construction business.  But that does not mean you and I are fabricating our own building.  We are assembling the houses of others.  The Greek makes it very clear. …
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Highest Priority

February 20 “It is necessary for me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is still day. John 9:4  (J. Green, TR) It is necessary – What is your highest priority?  What defines your life so that if everything else were taken away, you would still be about doing what you…
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Blame

And His disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind.” John 9:2  NASB Who sinned – Someone has to be at fault!  Life doesn’t go the way we want it to.  Someone’s to blame!  “Lord, this isn’t fair.  I don’t deserve this.  Who made this…
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All Aboard

Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12  NASB Press On – How do I change boule into thelo?  When we discovered yesterday that “will”…
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Active Obedience

“For I have come down out of heaven, not that I should do my will, but the will of him who sent me.” John 6:38  NASB Will – There are two words in Greek that are translated “will.”  Knowing the difference between these words is crucial.  The first is thelo. It means intending to do…
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