How much time do we spend each day thinking about heaven? The more we do, the more useful we will be as God's servants. Paul pictures the Christian as an…
Jesus is going out of the world and prays for His disciples to be kept, as they will be left in an unholy world. The world is a dangerous place…
Things had been going well in Israel but trouble comes in the form of the Philistines now David is king. Likewise, the devil seeks to wreak havoc against the church…
With Abner dead, Ishbosheth is sorrowful that he will no longer be king. Is our biggest sorrow that people don't admire us? Living for our own glory is exhausting but…
The author describes the Christian life as a race to be run. Every Christian is running the same race, equally fitted and having the same standing before God. Yet in…
Faced with Ishbosheth's accusation, Abner reaches out to David, but with the wrong motive. We must search our hearts and check our motives. David's response is a shrewd political move.…
Things were deteriorating in sinful Judah, and Jeremiah is in prison for offending the king. God tells him to buy a field in enemy territory. Humanly speaking it was madness,…
Paul gives three commands. We are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, living a life that looks like the one Jesus would have us to live. We…
Pergamum was the seat of Roman government. Jesus calls it the throne of Satan, yet there was a church there. There had already been a martyrdom, and they had been…
Smyrna was committed to the Roman emperor, and any Christian who would not worship a Roman god was submitted to persecution and poverty. There is encouragement for them in that…