by jbrackbill | Oct 22, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
All of us sleep ever day (at least I hope we do!). Sleep is a fact of life. Without sleep we could not live. But have you ever thought about what sleep teaches us spiritually? Here are some of the things the Lord would want us to know and learn in relationship to...
by jbrackbill | Oct 16, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
“You, O LORD, are a shield about me” are the words of David in Psalm 3 as He flees from His son Absalom and they are dear words to all those who follow the LORD. We are in the right place when we recognize that we need the LORD to be our shield and that in...
by jbrackbill | Oct 8, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
The church at Crete needed to be established. It was early on in church history and Titus was the Apostle Paul’s apostolic representative there. We learn from Paul’s letter to Titus that he needed to “set in order what remains” (Titus 1:5). How...
by jbrackbill | Oct 1, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
David says “I will not be afraid” in Psalm 3:6 and yet the circumstance in which he wrote was certainly the soil in which ungodly fear most naturally thrives. He was running from his own son Absalom who was attempting to take the kingdom from David his father. David...
by jbrackbill | Sep 24, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts, Uncategorized
Last Sunday evening we considered Genesis 18:1-15 and saw that the LORD once again appeared to Abraham to strengthen his faith, but this time it was for his wife’s faith to be strengthened. The climax of these fifteen verses is recorded in verse 14: “Is...