Daily Truth

Today's time being conformed to Christ's likeness is in Revelation 3:7-13. Lord, Thank You that when I have no strength, you have all strength. You hold the key (7-8). Help me be strong enough to keep Your Word and be loyal to You (8). Thank You that You will vindicate me before any who oppose my loyalty to You and my obedience to Your Word (9). Help me endure as You have commanded (10). Help me know Your greatness so I will...

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Daily Truth

Today's time soaking in God's truth is in Revelation 3:1-6. Lord, Give my life integrity. Don't let me have a reputation for being spiritually mature and effective if I am not (1). Don't let my works for You be left unfinished (2). Be my strength to finish well (2). Don't allow me to forget Your grace or Your truth (3). Make me one of the few, the remnant who walks worthy of Your sacrifice (4). Thank You for never erasing my...

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Daily Truth

Today's truth that transforms our minds is in Revelation 2:18-29. Lord, You know everything I do 23). Make my love, faithfulness, service, and endurance increase, not decrease (19). Help me be Your slave, not the slave of deceptive teachings (20). Help me want to believe that obedience to You is much more satisfying than sin (21). Rule me until You come so I will be prepared to rule with You then (25). Thank You that I cannot...

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Daily Truth

Today's time chipping off what does not look like Christ is enabled by Revelation 2:12-17. My righteous Judge(12), Help me hold onto You even when everyone around me is bowing to the leading of Satan (13). Make me loyal to You until death, like Antipas (13). Keep me pure from all idolatry and impurity (14). Help me live to be satisfied by spiritual food (Your Word and Yourself) rather than by my worldly appetites and desires (17)....

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Daily Truth

Today's time being shaped like Christ is in Revelation 2:8-11. Lord, Thank You for dying and living again to triumph over death for me (8). Remind me always of how you have made me rich, even when I am poor and suffering (9). Let me not fear when I suffer, and make me ready to endure any tribulation (10). Keep me faithful until I die. Let me live for the crown of life, not the crowns that the world offers (10) Help me hear You...

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Daily Truth

Today's time being equipped with truth to share with others is in revelation 2:1-7. Lord, Honor Yourself by enabling us to do Your work without stopping. Give us the ability to test what others claim to be true and identify lies (2). Don't let our love for You fade and let what we do today reveal that love. If it has faded, help us know it (repent) and align out works with what what you show us (4). If we refuse to love You most,...

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Daily Truth

Today's time being changed by Truth is in Revelation 1. My Alpha and my Omega (my source and my goal)(8), Make my life a picture of Your Word and Your Son (2-3). Rule me today and forever as my liberator and king (5-6). Convince my heart to live based on what is certain, Christ's coming (7). Make me willing to be a partner in suffering for the Word and for Jesus (9). Help me be sensitive to and aware of the Spirit's leading...

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Daily Truth

Today's time living by every Word that comes from God's mouth is in Jude. Father, Lead me to do what is needed today, not just what I want (3). Let me have You as my only master today (4). Don't let me be a frustrated complainer, a chaser of my own desires, a flatterer of others just to get my way, or a source of divisions due to worldly thinking (16-17). Instead, grow me up and keep me steady in the faith (20-21). Help me...

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Daily Truth

Today's time being transformed by God's truth is in 3 John. Lord, Help me be in good health, but even more, let me be spiritually healthy in that each of my steps is guided by Your truth (2-3). Teach me to hunger for the joy of seeing those i have discipled walking according to Your truth (4). Give me spiritual children to disciple. Cause me to live to reveal Your greatness, not mine (9). Help me imitate what is good, and not...

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The New View of Sinning and Suffering

Once a man sees the message of the cross, he has an entirely new view of everything.  He is not just trying to live a good life now; not just trying not to do harm; not trying to live just on the edge of the law—not wanting to be prosecuted, but going as far as he safely can.  That is all finished.  He is a new man. ...

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Daily Truth

Today's time relying on the Lord's truth is in 2 John. Lord, Thank You for those in Your body who are living in light of Your Truth (4). Help me do the most loving things I can today, which are to walk in obedience to Your commands (6). Help me not lose the spiritual perspective to which You have brought me by Your Word (8). Thank You that Jesus came as a true human to save my fallen, dead humanity (7). Use me to share that...

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Daily Truth

Today's time being shaped by God's truth is 1 John 5. Lord, I love others best by loving You, and I love you best by obeying You (2-3). Give me the faith to defeat the worldliness in and around me (4). Make Your Word my confidence that I have eternal life in Christ (13). Help me learn to pray in light of the way that You see things (14-15). Help my church family be holy (16-17). Don't let the devil touch or influence me (18-19)....

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Daily Truth

Today's much needed truth from God is in 1 John 4. Lord, Make me able to recognize and submit to the leading and teaching of Your Spirit and to be aware of and resist the influence of worldly ways of thinking that ignore Christ's coming in real humanity to take my sin so I could know You (1-3). You were victorious over worldly ways of thinking and You are in me. Cause me to listen to Your Word and make me like You today (4)....

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Daily Truth

Today's truth that encourages us to holiness is 1 John 3. Father, Thank You for being a God of love toward me (1). Give me an unquenchable hope to be like You which drives me to purify myself since You are sinless (3-5). If I really am Your child, I will not live in sin (6). Destroy powerfully the influence of the devil in my thinking, wanting, and doing (8). Help me trust only in the power of Jesus to save me, transform me,...

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Daily Truth

Today's time being changed by the Word is in 1 John 2. Father, thank You that You gave Your blameless Son to defend me before Your righteous judgement bench, covering my sin with His own perfections (1-2). Make me sure of my salvation, not because I walked an aisle, but because I am obeying You and "walking" like" Jesus daily (3-6). Don't let me be blinded by hatred, but fill me with Your love for the unloving (9-11). Give me...

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Forgiveness and Bitterness

Forgiveness and bitterness.  Without the first, you’ll limp through life with the second.  Misunderstanding can breed deep-seated bitterness, which doesn’t easily go away.  Forgiveness must occur if you ever hope to be free of your painful past.  It does not mean you agree.  It doesn’t necessarily mean you now have...

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Daily Truth

Today's life-changing truth is in 1 John 1. Father, Thank You that the way to have real life in You is the same as it has been from the beginning (1). Make me faithful and bold to tell others all I know about You (2) so they will become partners in living to make You know (3). Thank You for the joy that comes from telling others how great You are (4). Make my life line-up with my testimony that a holy God lives in me and is...

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Daily Truth

Today's truth from God is in 2 Peter 3. Lord, Let my speech today remind others of what Your Word says (2). Give me Your desire that "all come to repentance" and use me today for that purpose (9). Since this earth is going to be destroyed, let me focus on doing holy and godly things that will last (10-11). As I endure the effects of sin in this world, thank You for the promise of a new heaven and earth full of righteousness...

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Daily Truth

Today's needed Word is 2 Peter 2. Master, Do not allow me to deny You today (1). Please keep me from following my evil desires (2). Thank You for knowing how to rescue me from trials (9). Destroy my self-exalting and self-justifying self-righteousness (10). Don't let me follow instinct like an animal, but help me be truly human by following You (12). Make me a slave to You, not sin (19). Today, help me not return to the vomit...

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Daily Truth

Today's reminder of Truth is in 2 Peter 1:12-21. Lord, As long as I live in this body, help me spend my days reminding Your children to reflect You. Help the reminder be unforgettable (12-15). Make me an eyewitness of Your power today (16). Confirm by my walk with You today that Jesus is the One and only Savior of the world (17). Don't let me ignore Your Word, drawing me to focus on it singularly and submitting to it radically...

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Daily truth

Today, let's read and live-out 2 Peter 1:1-11. My God and Savior (1), I am Your slave to be sent out because of the righteousness of Christ given to me (1). Powerfully make my life point to You. For this You have called me (3). Help my speech, actions, and choices today prove that I share in Your divine nature which has no corruption (4-7). Produce much fruit through me today as I submit to what You want (8). Don't let me forget...

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A User Friendly God

I believe people are leaving churches in such large numbers today because we have failed to hold up before them a high view of God—a vision so awesome and transcendent that it captures their hearts and changes their lives. Because our modern-day teaching and preaching so often present a low view of God, worshipers tend to become fixated...

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Daily Truth

Today's life-changing text is 1 Peter 5. Chief Shepherd, Enable the pastors that You have called to watch over Your flock to lead eagerly and by example. Let them be satisfied by the unfading crown You will give them when You come back (1-4). Give me humility (5). Please take my concerns. Thank You for caring for me (7). Give me discernment to recognize the enemy's attacks by consistently trusting and following You (8-9). Thank...

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The Myth of Methodology

I have a gadget on my computer desktop that continually scrolls through my Twitter feed.  For a person who is as easily distracted as I am, that’s probably not a good idea. During one of my more recent ADD moments, I found myself distracted by a link to an article titled something like, “Ten Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic.” I think...

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