One of the many traps that humans fall into is the belief that God needs our advice on how to do His job. The truth is that we’ve all slipped into prideful moments of thinking that God needed to be doing (fill in the blank) for our lives or our congregations rather than how He [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Morning Devotion: Compared to God….
Posted in trust, tagged God's supremacy, God's power, hope, humility, pride, trust, wisdom on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Morning Devotion: Beware of old diving boards
Posted in God's leading, tagged endurance, faith, God's power, strength, trust, wisdom on July 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
When I was a kid, my family would periodically visit a lake in northwest Indiana that had hundreds of houses along its shoreline. Well, you know how boys are…. my brothers and I would go exploring in our aluminum jon boat, sometimes to fish, sometimes to swim, and sometimes to check out properties that appeared [...]
Morning Devotion: Longtime Christians beware!
Posted in pride, tagged attacks, Bible, God's power, intercession, pride, sinfulness, strength, trust on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We longtime Christians face a recurring temptation that is so devious. We are randomly tempted to feel so confident in our decision-making that we stop checking with God’s Word to see if we’re choosing wisely. After all, we think, we haven’t been ruined by our past decisions so why would we be ruined by any [...]
Morning Devotion: Is big worship what God expects?
Posted in worship, tagged Christ's glory, God's supremacy, humility, Jesus Christ, pride, truth, worship on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One of the mistakes that some Christians make is to think that “big worship” as in that found at a Christian convention or megachurch is more important to God than the worship in a small congregation or house church. Yes, it’s true that more people are involved in big worship and the number of “bells [...]
Morning Devotion: Contentment in the chaos
Posted in spiritual strength, tagged attacks, endurance, God's power, hope, patience, Personal holiness, trust on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We all know a few people who have a real gift for remaining calm and contented, even when chaos swirls through their corners of the world. Job loss? They calmly start cutting back their lifestyle and crank up their prayer lives, with contentment characterizing their interactions with others. Medical problems? They calmly — and without [...]

