Daily Verse

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.—1 John 3:1Thoughts on Today's Verse...Some gifts are too precious for words and too wonderful to fully appreciate. The greatest of these gifts is that we are God's children. We have […]

"Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation..."—Luke 2:29-30Thoughts on Today's Verse...Welcome to Leap Day! I wanted to remind you that we are basing our Scripture verses this year on the day — February 29, or 2/29, becomes Luke 2:29. And my prayer for you on this Leap Day is that your relationship with Jesus makes you want […]

Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.—Jeremiah 2:28Thoughts on Today's Verse...Let's focus on a straightforward concept today. We must worship God alone! Based on the allocation of our time, interests, lifestyle, money expenditures, and speech, who or what is our god? Is it […]

Daniel replied, "No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries."—Daniel 2:27-28Thoughts on Today's Verse...Daniel spoke the ageless truth to King Nebuchadnezzar when he wanted his dream interpreted. The question for us is straightforward: "Do we believe what Daniel said?" What is the bedrock of our faith in uncertain times? Who […]

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.—James 2:26Thoughts on Today's Verse...By this definition, I fear that many people claiming to be believers are spiritual corpses. For our faith to be genuine, James says it must express itself in good deeds. Jesus said something similar in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:21). Faith not only moves mountains but must also move believers to […]

Jesus would not entrust himself to them [the crowd], for he knew all men. He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.—John 2:24-25Thoughts on Today's Verse...Jesus knows people. He especially knew the crowd and how fickle and selfish people often can be. Jesus did not minister to people, heal the broken, or teach the truth to those who would listen to garner […]

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.—Genesis 2:24Thoughts on Today's Verse...We are different! God makes us male and female so we can be complements of each other. Each of us, male or female, is made in God's image. God intends that a husband and wife find their primary intimate human relationship with the other. […]

"[Jesus] was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross."—Acts 2:23Thoughts on Today's Verse...When we think of the Cross, we must never associate the words "tragic accident" with it. In this message at the first Pentecost following Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, Peter insisted that two separate streams of power converged […]

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?—Isaiah 2:22Thoughts on Today's Verse...God will humble the arrogant. He has a day he has designated to do this. But, until that day dawns, God's Kingdom people must live knowing that even the apparent all-powerful evil of the ungodly around us will be brought to ruin. We must not trust human power; it can […]