HPBC Daily Blog (Page 291)
Verse of the Day – Hebrews 10:35-36 KJV
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Finite Beings – Infinite Desires
Finite Beings—Infinite Desires By Billy Graham • September 18, 2016 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. —Hebrews 13:14 One of the basic desires of the soul is to live on and on. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. People may grow tired of aches and pains and the decrepitude of old age, but they do not grow tired of life itself. God has arranged to satisfy this yearning of the soul to…
Verse of the Day – Hebrews 4:15 KJV
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
The Power of Words
The Power of Words By Billy Graham • September 17, 2016 The tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do . . . —James 3:5 (TLB) There is a story of a woman in England who came to her vicar with a troubled conscience. The vicar knew her to be a habitual gossip—she had maligned nearly everyone in the village. “How can I make amends?” she pleaded. The vicar said, “If you want to make peace…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 3:11-12 KJV
¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord: neither be weary of his correction: ¹² For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
The Madness of the Gospel
The Madness of the Gospel By Billy Graham • September 16, 2016 We preach Christ crucified . . . —1 Corinthians 1:23 One of the great needs in the church today is for every Christian to become enthusiastic about his faith in Jesus Christ. This is the essence of vital spiritual experience. The apostles had been with Christ, and they could not help but testify to that which they had seen and heard. Every Christian should become an ambassador of…
Verse of the Day – Romans 8:26 KJV
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered.
Is It Well with your Soul?
Is It Well With Your Soul? By Billy Graham • September 15,2016 And how does a man benefit if he gains the whole world and loses his soul in the process? For is anything worth more than his soul? —Mark 8:36,37 (TLB) In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul. Consequently, we are one-sided. We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are…
Verse of the Day – 1 Peter 3:18 KJV
For Christ also hat once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
True Friendship
True Friendship By Billy Graham • September 14, 2016 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. —John 13:35 The human soul is a lonely thing. It must have the assurance of companionship. Left entirely to itself, it cannot enjoy anything. God said in the beginning, “It is not good that man should dwell alone” (Genesis 2:18). The creation of Eve was the beginning of human companionship. God’s people are…
Verse of the Day – Romans 1:16 KJV
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation too every one that believeth: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Where is Jesus Christ?
Where Is Jesus Christ? By Billy Graham • September 13, 2016 Everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus . . . —Philippians 3:8 (TLB) “Where is Jesus Christ?” Innumerable students are studying Him and deciding whether or not Christ and the Gospel really matter-whether He is relevant in this modern age. C.S. Lewis, a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Oxford and later at Cambridge, had to do the same thing. He…