Tag: God's plan

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Matthew 28:1-10 TO CHEW ON: "He is not here; he has risen just as he said ..." Matthew 28:6 Something mysterious happens when people die. The invisible but living part of a person – the moving, breathing, thinking, feeling, loving part – leaves the body. The body – the physical shel...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Joshua 6:1-5 & 20 TO CHEW ON: "Then the Lord said to Joshua, 'See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.' " Joshua 6:2 The first city the Israelites faced after they crossed the Jordan River was Jericho. It had walls, an army and a k...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Isaiah 53:2-8 TO CHEW ON: "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way;and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6 It was the most important day of the year, the Day of Atonement. Everyone came to the holy gathering bathed and in ...

We have now driven right through the Old Testament part of the Bible! In the next four months Bible Drive-Thru will take you through the New. (The September 1 devotion - "Surprise" begins our trip through the New Testatment.) About 400 years passed between the time when Nehemiah rebuilt the Jerusale...

TODAY’S SPECIAL:2 Chronicles 26:16-22 TO CHEW ON: "But after Uzziah became powerful his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense." 2 Chronicles 26:16 Back in Judah, years had gone by since King Joash’s...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Luke 1:1-25 TO CHEW ON: "Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him ... When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear." Luke 1:11, 12 What do you want the very most in the world - a pet, a skateboard, a brother or sister, a friend? Zechariah and Elizabeth wanted a...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Judges 16:4-22 TO CHEW ON: "With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. So he told her everything.” Judges 16:16,17 “I’m in love with a Philistine girl,” Samson announced to his dad one day. “Get her for me.”Samson’s parents didn’t approve. “Can...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Joshua 23:1-16 TO CHEW ON: “But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them, then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Inst...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Samuel 28:3-20TO CHEW ON: "He inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him . . . . Saul then said to his attendants, 'Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her.'” 1 Samuel 28:6,7 The Philistines were threatening again and Saul was terrified. He wante...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 10:24-35 TO CHEW ON: "Then Peter began to speak: 'I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.'" Acts 10:34,35 Peter went back with Cornelius’s servants to Caesarea. Even though Co...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Esther 2:12-18TO CHEW ON: "Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti." Esther 2:17 Esther gathered the few ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: I Corinthians 15: 35-44 TO CHEW ON: "The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." I Corinthians 15:42b-44 Marig...