by jbrackbill | Jul 23, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
Recently we have been working our way through the books of Ezra and Nehemiah during our family worship time. Something that has really stuck out to us is how these two Old Testament books illustrate what the New Testament consistently speaks of regarding the church....
by jbrackbill | Jul 16, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
Do you remember being a child and maybe having the awareness that someone was taking pleasure in you? Whether it was a parent, a grandparent, or a friend of the family maybe you can remember that feeling of being delighted in the pleasure they took in you and desiring...
by jbrackbill | Jul 9, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
Do you know that feeling when you read something that is a very important statement, but that someone has used in a very cheap or trite way? Unwittingly we can do that with Scripture. We tend to jump on a phrase of Scripture and run with it without reference to its...
by jbrackbill | Jul 2, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
There is this question that we humans like to ask God: Why? It is a dangerous question and yet it is an important question to ask as long as we are willing to accept God’s answer in His Word. If we ask why and expect to receive specific reasons for everything that...
by jbrackbill | Jun 18, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
This is an important question and the first and most obvious answer is that if someone is unwilling to repent of sin then they are not a child of God. Initial repentance is the sinner’s fundamental change of mind, emotion and will toward personal sin at the time of...
by jbrackbill | May 28, 2013 | Devotional Thoughts
Something is not right in this world. What is normal is not what ought to be. There is a reason that sin and suffering are saddening, shocking and grieving to God’s image-bearers. This reflects our innate knowledge that something is wrong here in God’s creation. Of...
