By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.” Psalm 116:5 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Imagine you’re in a plane, ready for take-off on the runway. The pilot comes on the intercom and announces there’s a… Read More ›
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Do you want to tell God how to do things?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him.” Deuteronomy 13:4 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: When we read a… Read More ›
Do dark shadows frighten you?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth.” Psalm 145:18 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Psalm 23 speaks of the “valley of the shadow of death.” For every… Read More ›
Do we have a jealous God?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” Exodus 34:14 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: When this verse says that God is a jealous God, that may sound like a bad attribute…. Read More ›
1 Timothy: The Biblical Pattern for Pastoral Ministry, Part 8 – 1 Timothy 4:1-5: “Abandonment of the Truth”
By Dr. Donald Whitchard If you have not read part one you can find it here: 1 Timothy: The Biblical Foundation for Pastoral Ministry, Part 1 – Setting the Scene If you have not read part two you can find… Read More ›
1 Timothy: The Biblical Pattern for Pastoral Ministry, Part 7 – 1 Timothy 3:8-13: “The Deacon and His Responsibilities”
By Dr. Donald Whitchard If you have not read part one you can find it here: 1 Timothy: The Biblical Foundation for Pastoral Ministry, Part 1 – Setting the Scene If you have not read part two you can find… Read More ›
Are God’s laws a burden to you?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for Thy law is my delight.” Psalm 119:77 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: How does God unite a law book with a song book? I’ll tell you how…. Read More ›
Can you ever exhaust God’s compassion?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Do you know what Lamentations 3:22-23 means? It means that God… Read More ›
The victory He won was for you
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” 1 Corinthians 1:30 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: The church is not an organization with Jesus Christ… Read More ›
Do you need a recipe for a miracle?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.” Psalm 116:1-2 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Here’s the… Read More ›
Are you a part of the “Second Creation”?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence.” Colossians 1:18 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: There are two beginnings in creation…. Read More ›
1 Timothy: The Biblical Pattern for Pastoral Ministry, Part 6 – 1 Timothy 3:1-7; 2 Timothy 4:1-4: “How to Seek a Shepherd”
By Dr. Donald Whitchard If you have not read part one you can find it here: 1 Timothy: The Biblical Foundation for Pastoral Ministry, Part 1 – Setting the Scene If you have not read part two you can find… Read More ›
Fear Not!
By Rob Pue, Publisher Wisconsin Christian News “The Establishment Church in America knows NOTHING about true Christianity; certainly the modern preachers are not proclaiming it. Because of the fear of the opinions of man, they are suppressing the truth, cowering,… Read More ›
Are you praying the wrong prayer?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “…upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt… Read More ›
Faith sees the invisible and receives the impossible
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: A nobleman’s son became ill, so he sought Jesus to heal him. When he found Jesus, he… Read More ›
Do you carry a swim suit “just in case”?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.” Romans 13:14 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: One of my favorite stories is about a father who leaves his… Read More ›
Do you want to know how to run your race?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of… Read More ›
1 Timothy: The Biblical Foundation for Pastoral Ministry, Part 4 – 1 Timothy 2:1-7: “Prayers for All Men”
By Dr. Donald Whitchard If you have not read part one you can find it here: 1 Timothy: The Biblical Foundation for Pastoral Ministry, Part 1 – Setting the Scene If you have not read part two you can find… Read More ›
He took your sin; you got His righteousness
By Adria Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Jesus suffered like you… Read More ›
Do you need a mind clean-up?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways.” Psalm 119:15 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Have you ever heard of a one-track mind? The devil plants a thought in our minds, and over time it… Read More ›
The world’s best teacher is ready to train you
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “I will worship toward Thy holy temple, and praise Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and for Thy truth: for Thou hast magnified Thy word above all Thy name.” Psalm 138:2 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: There was a man… Read More ›
The only thing you have that God wants
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” Matthew 10:39 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: We have nothing that God needs. Think about that. Read More ICB… Read More ›
What if Jesus returned today?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “And every man that hath this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:3 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Two little girls were talking in school one day, and one said to the other,… Read More ›
1 Timothy: The Biblical Foundation for Pastoral Ministry, Part 3 – 1 Timothy 1:12-17: Grace to the Chief of Sinners
By Dr. Donald Whitchard “Consider the fact that we are the enemies of God prior to His work of redemption upon us (Romans 5:6-11). The hard fact is that He did not have to save us after we rebelled against… Read More ›
Is what you do for Jesus keeping you from Jesus?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.” Psalm 19:12 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: I believe in church attendance, but if your relationship with the Lord and with others is suffering, then you need to stay at home… Read More ›
Are you “doing” for Jesus rather than listening to Jesus?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Discipleship is fellowship with Christ, knowing Christ, loving Christ, abiding in Christ. Read More… Read More ›
Is all truth God’s Truth?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: God made the mind… Read More ›
Is God generous or stingy?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” James 1:5 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: James 1:5 tells us that if… Read More ›
Do you continually complain?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights… Read More ›
Does going to church feel like going to the dentist?
By Adrian Rogers BIBLE MEDITATION: “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy… Read More ›