Daily Lift – June 07, 2017
The Word existed from eternity. In fact, the original language of John 1:1 reads this way: “In the beginning the Word always was, and the Word always was with God, and the Word always was God.”
Daily Lift – June 05, 2017
What can it mean to “know” God, for no person has ever seen the Father (John 1:18)? On one occasion the apostle Philip demanded of Jesus that He would show all the disciples the Father (John 14:8). Jesus’ reply seems to be somewhat from disappointment that such would be demanded, for He said: “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9).
Daily Lift – June 04, 2017
Good and evil are both in this world and they work in all of us, but the goal is to seek the good. To follow such a charge from God implies that all of us know that there is a standard of right and that standard is the will of the Father.
Daily Lift – May 23, 2017
Man has several fears. One is death. Death is a powerful enemy. No man can defeat it. It always takes life. It can come suddenly. It can come after long periods of pain and illness.
Daily Lift – May 05, 2017
Jesus did not come into this world for His own good. He had us in mind. Christ said in His own words, “Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). Leaving the glories of heaven and setting aside His equality with the Father (John 17:5; Philippians 2:6-8),