by nsackman | Nov 9, 2016 | Devotionals
“In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory...
by nsackman | Nov 2, 2016 | Devotionals
“The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, “Why, it’s just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a piece of wood?” The poor, deluded fool...
by nsackman | Oct 19, 2016 | Devotionals
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 2 Corinthians 4:17 If you are like the vast majority of us in the northern hemisphere, you’ve been stranded without snow under your feet for one too many months...
by nsackman | Oct 5, 2016 | Devotionals
“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” Acts 2: 42 “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and...
by nsackman | Sep 29, 2016 | Devotionals
“I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in...
by nsackman | Sep 21, 2016 | Devotionals
“For God so loved the kosmos (Greek for: the world, the universe), that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the kosmos to condemn the kosmos, but in order that the kosmos might be...
