December 7, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Death is not death if it kills no part of us, save that which hindered us from perfect life.
Death is not death if it raises us in a moment from darkness into light, from weakness into strength, from sinfulness into holiness.
Death is not death if it brings us nearer to Christ, who is the fount of life.
Death is not death if it perfects our faith by sight and lets us behold Him in whom we have believed.
Death is not death if it gives us to those whom we have loved and lost, for whom we have lived, for whom we long to live again.
Death is not death if it rids us of doubt and fear, of chance and change, of space and time, and all which space and time bring forth and then destroy.
Death is not death, for Christ has conquered Death for Himself and for those who trust in Him.

Charles Kingsley

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

Psalm 62:1-2
The King James Version

December 6, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Billy Graham

“And you are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 34:31
The Revised Standard Version

He who does not pray when the sun shines will not know how to pray when the clouds roll in.

Unknown

December 3, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

When Christ brings his cross, he brings his presence; and where he is, none is desolate, and there is no room for despair. As he knows his own, so he knows how to comfort them, using sometimes the very grief itself, and straining it to a sweetness of peace unattainable by those ignorant of sorrow.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 1:16-17
The New International Version

Ah, there’s my pastor in the coffee shop. Think I’ll go tell him a long, rambling, disconnected story.

David Regier

December 2, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Dear Ann Landers, I am a girl 18 years old and living at home with my father. One hears so much about the generation gap these days, but it doesn’t exist in our family. Every day my father tells me, “I trust you. I respect you. I believe in you. I love you.” He doesn’t actually speak the words, but the message comes across loud and clear. It’s the look in his eyes. The way he just assumes I am doing the right thing. It all adds up to confidence and faith. I’d rather die than let him down.

Your Daily Reader in Michigan

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalm 91:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

December 1, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Francis of Assisi

This is what the Lord says: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord. “They will return from the land of the enemy. So there is hope for your descendants,” declares the Lord. “Your children will return to their own land.”

Jeremiah 31:16-17
The New International Version

This is just a little country church with a lost and found.

Church sign

November 30, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Pray remember what I have recommended to you, which is, to think often on God, by day, by night, in your business, and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave Him not alone. You would think it rude to leave a friend alone who came to visit you; why, then, must God be neglected? Do not then forget Him, but think on Him often, adore Him continually, live and die with Him; this is the glorious employment of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession; if we do not know it we must learn it. I will endeavour to help you with my prayers…

Brother Lawrence

My son, do not lose sight of these—keep sound wisdom and discretion, and they will be life for your soul and adornment for your neck. Then you will walk on your way securely, and your foot will not stumble. If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

Proverbs 3:21-26
The English Standard Version

November 30, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thank you

Dear Ministry Members,

We now close our annual November fundraising efforts with much gratitude. You, our readers, continue to bless us with your support both in prayer and in your financial investment in our efforts to share daily Christian messages.

Thank you for your support as we can now plan for our next year together…and thank you for allowing us to once again share our fundraising efforts throughout this special month.

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November 29, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

And God who gives beginnings gives the end;
A place for broken things too broken to mend.

John Masefield

You were chosen by God the Father long ago. He knew you were to become His children. You were set apart for holy living by the Holy Spirit. May you obey Jesus Christ and be made clean by His blood. May you be full of His loving-favor and peace.

1 Peter 1:2
The New Life Version

Dear God: I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only four people in our family, and I can never do it.

Third Grader question

November 26, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

1 John 1:5
The New King James Version

Pray only in a room with windows [to remember the world outside].

The Talmud

November 25, 2021 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

It has seemed to me fit and proper that the gifts of God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.

Abraham Lincoln, Thanksgiving proclamation of 1863

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:6-7
The King James Version

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