Tag: patience
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The Lord’s Supper: Lessons from Corinth (Pt 4)
Daily Devotion | Day 333 “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup” (1 Corinthians 11:28, NKJV). In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series we discussed the problem at the Lord’s Supper in Corinth as well as its consequences. Today we will…
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Anger Management: Why Bother?
Daily Devotion|Day 264 “Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly” (Proverbs 14:29, ESV). Anger is a passion common to all people. It is not the only passion. There are others like desire and hate. Whether anger is harmful or not depends on the following: what…
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When God Is ‘Silent’
Daily Devotion|Day 242 “You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?” (Habakkuk 1:13, NKJV). Have you ever had a complaint against God? Have you been in…
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Dropping the Weights, Eyes on Jesus
Daily Devotional: Day 201 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1, KJV). Christianity is not an amusement park…
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Quenching the Fire of Revenge
Daily Devotional: Day 114 “But He [Jesus] turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them . . .” (Luke 9:55-56, NKJV). One day, Jesus had to pass through a Samaritan…