There are two readings for today. SCRIPTURE: James 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and…
Author: Norm
tongue flapping
SCRIPTURE: James 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?…
faith that acts
SCRIPTURE: James 2 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does…
do what He says
SCRIPTURE: James 1 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. [James 1:22] Do what it says, or better, do what He says. The word is the voice of Jesus, Who is the voice of God – do what He says. He freely gives wisdom, truth and freedom through…
mercy for the merciful
SCRIPTURE: Obadiah 1 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head. [Obadiah 1:15] The people of Israel are the descendants of Jacob, the people of Edom come from Esau. In the day of Israel’s fall, the…
which cup do you prefer?
SCRIPTURE: Amos 9 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills, and I will bring my people Israel back from exile. They will rebuild the ruined…
when God lets us go hungry
SCRIPTURE: Amos 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. [Amos 8:11] God speaks all the time, and though we do not realize it, we depend…
what I want for Christmas
I always wanted a Hot Wheel race track for Christmas. I got a few cars, but THIS is the set I want now… so cool! Dad, Mom, can I have it, I promise I’ll be good!
thankful to live in Canada
the fall of the church as we know it?
SCRIPTURE: Amos 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.” [Amos 7:12-13] Amos is accused of speaking against the holy structures…