Daily Reading: Hebrews 13:5-6: “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” What do you and I have in common as believers in Jesus Christ? We have God as our Father which makes us brothers and sisters in Christ. Be content with having the very presence o

Daily Reading: 1 Kings 18:20-24: “So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. Get two bulls for us. Let Baal’s prophets choose one for them

Daily Reading: 2 Corinthians 2:14: “But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.” Question: How can we be victorious and triumph in life? Answer: It is clear in the Greek… Grace. When we read verse fourteen we might think the answer is “thanks”. I don’t think that is what Paul meant because in all of Scripture there is only three other places (charis) is translated as

Daily Reading: Matthew 22:1-4: “Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.“ Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding ba