Darkened Glass Reflections

Tag: Bible

God or Money (Matthew 6:19-24)

Jesus teaches us that we can not serve (worship) both God and money. We should lay up treasures in heaven, not only on Earth.

April 21, 2024
Jesus Cleansed the Temple: We Still Need Cleansing

Some thoughts for Holy Week.

March 24, 2024
“Forgive Us Our Debts/Trespasses” (Matthew 6:12)

Confession, repentance, and forgiveness are essential components of prayer.

February 4, 2024
“Our Father, Who Art in Heaven” (Matthew 6:10)

Our study of the Sermon on the Mount brings us to the opening address of the Lord’s Prayer. We pray to “Our Father, who art in heaven.”

January 7, 2024
Entering the Prayer Closet (Matthew 6:5-6)

Jesus taught His disciples to find a quiet place where they could be alone with God. We need this even more as the world gets more distracting.

December 17, 2023
Divine Flashlight

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalms 119:105)

July 28, 2019
Taste, See, and Sing! Loving and Craving God’s Word

God gives us His law, precepts, rules, and commandments, to show us how to live. He offers His promises. He gives us His testimonies, which prove that He is faithful and able to fulfill those promises. Do I read the Bible out of love, eagerness, or obligation?

May 27, 2019
The Spirit of Truth in the Life of the Believer

The Holy Spirit will speak to us as a reflection of His nature. He is the Spirit of Truth (John 14:16–17; 16:13). This is who He is. His very essence is truth. God’s Word is true because the Spirit of Truth inspired it and illuminates it to us.

May 19, 2019
The Authority of Scripture

The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of Scripture and directed them as they wrote. He guided the apostles to understand truths they were not ready to receive during Jesus’ earthly ministry (John 16:12–13), and these now appear in the pages of Scripture. This is not an ordinary book. Sadly, many Christians treat the Bible like…

March 10, 2019
Special Revelation IV: Recording the Revelation of Jesus

The Bible is a book like no other. It is living and active because it is a divinely-inspired record of God’s revelation of Himself to mankind. Let us read and study that Word not so much to gain intellectual knowledge, but to come to know the Author and Source of all Truth.

February 24, 2019