Monthly Archives: August 2017

Kevin A. Miller writes: “While in the hospital, trying to recover from a massive heart attack, my dad found out that a family down the street didn’t have enough money to buy groceries. So he wrote them a check.” Luke 12:33 (NIV) Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide … Continue reading →

James 2:14-17 (TEV) 14  My friends, what good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you? 15  Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don’t have enough to eat. 16  What … Continue reading →

Proverbs 25:21-22 (NIV) 21  If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. 22  In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you. Repay evil with good and you deprive the evildoer … Continue reading →

Mark 10:25 (NIV) “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Whether a man is rich or poor, observe his reaction to his possessions and you have a revealing index to his character. —J. … Continue reading →

Proverbs 22:6 (NIV) Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Joe, our nearly-4-year-old, was well-behaved except for one habit—he didn’t like to wear shoes. When it was time for his first Vacation Bible school, we told Joe he … Continue reading →

1 Kings 3:14 (NIV) “And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.” Matthew 13:8 (NIV) Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop–a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. … Continue reading →

Matthew 9:8 (NIV) When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to men. Our task as laymen is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious. —Paul Tournier Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume … Continue reading →

Colossians 3:12 (NIV) Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people. Now I admire kind people. —Abraham Heschel , Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), … Continue reading →

Matthew 5:14 (NIV) “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” “If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.” —D. L. Moody Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: … Continue reading →

Luke 10:30-37 (NIV) 30  Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31  A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when … Continue reading →