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Verse of the Day – 2 Thessalonians 3:3 KJV
“But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.”
The Purity of Marriage
The Purity of MarriageBy Billy Graham • August 25,2016 Whatsoever things are pure . . . think on these things. —Philippians 4:8 Nowhere does the Bible teach that sex in itself is a sin. Man in his sinful nature has taken what was intended to be a glorious and complete act of love between two people and has made it something low, cheap, and dirty. The Bible is one of the world’s outspoken books on the subject of sex, and…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 16:24 KJV
“Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”
Root of Sin
Root of Sin By Billy Graham • August 24, 2016 Overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us. —Romans 8:37 (TLB) The basic problem facing our world is not just social inequity, or lack of education, or even physical hunger. We are finding that highly educated and well-fed people have greeds, hates, passions, and lusts that are not eliminated by education. The root of sin in each of our hearts is extremely deep, and…
Verse of the Day – Ecclesiastes 7:9 KJV
“Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
We Must Decrease
We Must Decrease By Billy Graham • August 23, 2016 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. —Lamentations 3:40 Our modern philosophy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency has caused many to believe that we can make the grade without God. “Religion,” they argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can’t beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more…
Verse of the Day – Psalms 149:4 KJV
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
God Provides
God Provides By Billy Graham • August 22, 2016 For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down-when we die and leave these bodies-we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself, and not by human hands. —2 Corinthians 5:1 (TLB) Death, to the Christian, is the exchanging of a tent for a building. Here we are as pilgrims or gypsies, living in a…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 16:28 KJV
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
What Heaven will be Like
What Heaven Will Be Like By Billy Graham • August 21, 2016 And there shall be no more curse; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. —Revelation 22:3 The Bible indicates that heaven will be a place of great understanding and knowledge of things that we never learned down here. Sir Isaac Newton, when an old man, said to one who praised his wisdom, “I am as a…
Verse of the Day – Proverbs 18:12 KJV
¹²Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
Three Kinds of Pleasure
Three Kinds of Pleasure By Billy Graham • August 20, 2016 The disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. —Acts 13:52 The Bible speaks of three kinds of pleasure. There is lustful pleasure, the lust of the flesh, and Scripture says it is sinful and wrong. There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God. Then there is a third…