Tag: obedience

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Nehemiah 8:1-18 TO CHEW ON: "Ezra opened the book. All the people could see him because he was standing above them; and as he opened it the people stood up. Ezra praised the Lord, the great God; and all the people lifted up their hands and responded, 'Amen! Amen!' Then they bowed do...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ruth 3:1-18 TO CHEW ON: “'I will do whatever you say,' Ruth answered." Ruth 3:5 Boaz’s kindness to Ruth got Naomi thinking. Maybe Boaz would be willing to do even more for them. Naomi remembered that Boaz was a relative. He had the right to buy back the land she and her husband had ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 19:19-21 TO CHEW ON: "Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah." 1 Kings 19:20 One of the jobs God gave Elijah was to find and call the person who would be the next prophet. We don’t know how Elijah knew which person to choose. God probably told him. Neither do we know...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 4:13-21 TO CHEW ON: "Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, 'Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!'” Acts 4:18,19 After God healed the lame man thro...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Daniel 1:8-20 TO CHEW ON: "But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way." Daniel 1:8 “Can you please change the diet of me and my friends?” Daniel asked the guard. “We’d like to ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Isaiah 55:8-13 TO CHEW ON: "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,and do not return to it without watering the earthand making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return t...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Exodus 14:15-31 TO CHEW ON: "And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant." Exodus 14:31 Even after God spoke to him, Moses kept crying to God for help. Finally...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 9:10-19 TO CHEW ON: "But the Lord said to Ananias, 'Go.'” Acts 9:15 Saul had a reputation. Followers of Jesus (Christians) knew him as someone who showed no mercy. Imagine Ananias’s (not the same Ananias as “Ananias and Sapphira”) surprise when God told him, in a vision, to go ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Luke 2: 39-52 TO CHEW ON: "And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom and the grace of God was on him." Luke 2:40 Jesus’ family spent a few years in Egypt. One night God told Joseph in a dream that it was now safe to go back home. So Joseph, Mary and Jesus trave...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 John 1-13 TO CHEW ON: "I ask that we love one another. And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love." 2 John 5-6 To “walk in love” means different things to different people. To some it mean...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Psalm 19:1-14 TO CHEW ON: "By them your servant is warned and in keeping them there is great reward." Psalm 19:11 What is your favorite book? Why do you like it? If we could have asked David what his favorite book was, I’m sure he would have said, “God’s Word” – even though books in...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 10:1-8 TO CHEW ON: "At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion...” Acts 10:1 Cornelius was not a Jew but a Gentile. It wasn’t only his race that made the Jewish people want to avoid him. His job was a problem too. He was a centurion (centurion = captain) in the Ro...