Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  Matthew 6:27 (NIV, 1978) There was a brief exchange between flight controllers in the Academy Award-winning movie, Apollo 13, that took place as the wounded spacecraft was beginning its return to earth. The engineer monitoring their angle of

DRAWN TO THE TRUTH Watch your life and your doctrine closely.  Persevere in them, because if you do,    you will save both yourself and your hearers.   1 Timothy 4:16 (NIV, 1978) I have always tried to veer away from overt self-promotion because I view that as being contrary to the humility

Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?  1 Chronicles 17:16. (NIV, 1978)  The life of King David is a magnificent study in contradictions. When Samuel informed Saul that his time as king of Israel was coming to an end,

WORTHLESS WORSHIP But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the LORD my God that have cost me nothing.” So, David paid him fifty pieces of silver for the threshing floor and the oxen. 2 Samuel 24:24 (NLT)

t is my prayer that this devotion will contain a lesson-within-a-lesson for many who read it.

Though the fig tree does not budand there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop failsand the fields produce no food,though there are no sheep in the penand no cattle in the stalls,yet I will rejoice in the LORD,I will be joyful in God my Savior.Habakkuk 3:17-18 (NIV,

The watchman opens the gate for him (the shepherd), and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. 

This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting