January 23, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Richard Halverson

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.

Acts 16:25-26
The New International Version

That infamous story is told of a mother that was attempting to get her son up on a Sunday morning to go to church. Unable to make him get out of bed, she asked him why he did not want to go to church. “I’ll tell you why,” he said, “the choir sings off key, the congregation doesn’t know the hymns, and the people are unfriendly. Now you tell me two reasons why I should get up and go.” “I will,” said the mother. “In the first place you are thirty-five years of age and in the second place you’re the minister.”

Unknown

January 20, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Henry Martyn

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

Psalm 47:1
The King James Version

There are two types of people in the world: those who gather and those who give. And every man must decide which he will be.

Unknown

January 19, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We should submit our reason to the truths of faith with the humility and simplicity of a child.

Alphonsus Liguori

“Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”

Joshua 1:8
The New International Version

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

C. H. Spurgeon

January 18, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

A. W. Tozer

“He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

Matthew 10:40-42
The New King James Version

When God gives you a gift, don’t keep it in the package.

John M. Cline

January 17, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Do we know our neighbor, the poor of our own area? It is so easy for us to talk and talk about the poor of other places. Very often we have the suffering, we have the lonely, we have the people—old, unwanted, feeling miserable—and they are near us and we don’t even know them. We have no time even to smile at them. Tuberculosis and cancer are not the great diseases. I think a much greater disease is to be unwanted, unloved. The pain that these people suffer is very difficult to understand, to penetrate. I think this is what our people all over the world are going through, in every family, in every home. This suffering is being repeated in every man, woman and child. I think Christ is undergoing his Passion again. And it is for you and for me to help them.

Mother Teresa

Anyone who says he is a Christian but doesn’t control his sharp tongue is just fooling himself, and his religion isn’t worth much.

James 1:26
The Living Bible

God always answers in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul.

Unknown

January 16, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

We are as safe at sea, safer in the storm which God sends us, than in a calm when we are befriended by the world.

Jeremy Taylor

With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.

Psalm 109:30
The English Standard Version

The wayside pool reflects the fleeting clouds as exactly as does the mighty ocean.

Unknown

January 13, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

No doctrine of the Christian religion is worth preserving which cannot be verified in daily life.

John T. Watson

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
The King James Version

A mother was telling her six-year-old son about the Golden Rule. “Always remember,” she said, “that we are here to help others.” The youngster mulled this over for a minute and then asked, “Well, what are the others here for?”

Unknown

January 12, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

Warren Wiersbe

This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

1 John 4:13-16
The New International Version

Afflictions are but the shadow of God’s wings.

George MacDonald

January 11, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Almighty God, whose life is our true life, whose love is our love, whose joy is our joy, whose peace is our peace, whose burdens are our burdens, whose will is our will…

Thomas Kelley

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:1
The New King James Version

A missionary to the Appalachian mountain region of our country tells the story of having a group of children come to her home for dinner. These were young elementary and pre-school children from the very poorest of the mountaineer families. One little girl was utterly ravished and gobbled down everything that was set before her. But she did not drink a drop of the huge glass of milk that was at her place. Thinking that perhaps she did not like milk, the missionary asked her why she had not drunk any. To which the little girl replied: “Oh, nobody told me how far down I was to drink!” She was so used to sharing even her milk with other family members that she found it impossible to believe that it was all hers.

Margaret Rush

January 10, 2023 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Religion is not a way of looking at certain things. It is a certain way of looking at everything.

Robert E. Segal

Telling the truth gives a man great satisfaction, and hard work returns many blessings to him.

Proverbs 12:14
The Living Bible

I study my Bible as I gather apples. First, I shake the whole tree that the ripest might fall. Then I shake each limb, and when I have shaken each limb, I shake each branch and every twig. Then I look under every leaf.

Martin Luther

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