Daily Thoughts From God's Word

At Baxter we do our monthly food pantry, which often stimulates a conversation about the gospel vs. social ministry. In my missions...

The man who lived among the tombs was possessed. No one could bind him, even with chains. He broke them. But Jesus could and, not only...

So many illnesses. So many problems. Among them was the man with the withered hand whom Jesus met in the synagogue on the Sabbath and...

The chief priests and the elders plotted against Jesus in order to arrest him and kill him: “But they said, ‘Not during the feast, lest...

The parable of the wedding feast. Paying taxes. On the seashore fishing with the disciples. Sitting at the dinner table in homes. ...

The generosity of our Savior! In the parable of the workers, even though the last worker started late in the day, he was given a full...

Going to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, the disciples realized they had forgotten to bring food. Jesus, sensing their anxiety,...

A lot of news, lately, about Taiwan and independence and freedom. The Pharisees, however, seemed to have a bit of a problem with the...

“When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him. Right away a man with a serious skin disease came up and knelt before...

The Sermon on the Mount. Sometimes, people try to boil the Christian down to a set of laws: “Do this. Don’t do that.” Jesus was a...

Into the New Testament. The story continues. And the story never grows old and stale. In gracious, redemptive response to human sin,...

Oops! I skipped over the last chapters of Zechariah and went straight to the book of Malachi. I have to pay closer attention to my...

We are here at the end of the Old Testament, which offers a good opportunity to recall the relationship between the Old and the New...

The Lord to the returned exiles, through the prophet Zechariah: “Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says...

“In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet to...