Church Blog (Page 292)

Church Blog (Page 292)

Where is Your Treasure?

Where Is Your Treasure? By Billy Graham   •   August 18, 2016 Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . . —Matthew 6:20 Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life. People want more and more things. They forget that we are enjoying the highest standard of living the world has ever known. We still have poverty, and hundreds of…

Cast Your Cares

Cast Your Cares By Billy Graham   •   August 17, 2016 Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat-they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food-for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are. —Matthew 6:26 (TLB) Some section hands on a British railroad found a thrush’s nest under a rail. Peacefully sitting on her eggs, the hen was undisturbed by the roar of the fast trains…

Hunger for Righteousness

Hunger for Righteousness By Billy Graham   •   August 16, 2016 I will give to the thirsty the springs of the Water of Life—as a gift! —Revelation 21:6 (TLB) God says that only those who hunger after righteousness will receive it. God thrusts this heavenly manna on no one. You must desire it, above everything else. Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst. Prayer for the day Almighty…

Verse of the Day – Psalms 1:1-2 KJV

¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.  ²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

The Evidence of New Birth

The Evidence of the New Birth from Utmost.org  – August 15, 2016  You must be born again. —John 3:7  The answer to Nicodemus’ question, “How can a man be born when he is old?” is: Only when he is willing to die to everything in his life, including his rights, his virtues, and his religion, and becomes willing to receive into himself a new life that he has never before experienced (John 3:4). This new life exhibits itself in our conscious…

Verse of the Day – Colossians 1:17-18 KJV

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

The Beginning of Wisdom

The Beginning of Wisdom By Billy Graham   •   August 14, 2016 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom . . . —1 Corinthians 1:30 I believe we ought to get all the education we can, but we dare not make it our god. John Dewey once defined education as the systematic, purposeful reconstruction of experience; but so much of modern education leaves out God. What we are actually doing is reconstructing…

Life Changing Power

Life-Changing Power By Billy Graham   •   August 13, 2016  Christ died and rose again . . . so that he can be our Lord both while we live and when we die. —Romans 14:9 (TLB) With a frequency that is amazing, the Bible affirms the fact of the bodily resurrection of Christ. Perhaps the most direct of all its statements is Luke’s account in the book of Acts, where he reports, “To whom also he shewed himself alive after his…

Verse of the Day – Deuteronomy 6:6-7 KJV

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.