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02/14/2025

Love does cover a multitude of sins, both the sins of the one loving and the sins of the one who is being loved.

02/12/2025

The pace at which President Trump is issuing executive orders has some heads spinning and others exploding. In just three weeks, the White House has already rea

02/11/2025

Awards and rewards are presented in all segments of society: sports, business, government, military, entertainment, and more. And it starts at an early age—what child doesn’t delight in receiving a gold star for a job well done? Almost all human awards have one thing in common: They focus on past behavior or achievements.

For all who inherit a place in Christ’s future Millennial Kingdom, a different kind of reward will be received—a reward that focuses on the future. Rewards for faithfulness in this life will result in the privilege of service for Christ in His Kingdom in the future. The Millennium is not going to be a thousand-year vacation. Rather, it will be the manifestation of God’s just rule and economy on earth as administered by the saints of God who inherit the Kingdom. In Jesus’ parable of the talents, the servants who were faithful over some things were then made rulers over many things (Matthew 25:14-30). Our service for Christ in this life is not the end—it is only the beginning!

- Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah

02/10/2025

Are you allowing room for God to shape and mold you? Let this prayer be our theme for this week 🙏

02/09/2025

Do you know that you identify with Jesus in His death, burial, and resurrection? Have you reckoned your life to what you believe? Have you yielded to Him? Listen to “How to Live in Victory” on CSN Radio for encouraging words from Love Worth Finding Ministries with Adrian Rogers.

02/08/2025

The crowd around Jesus was extra-large that day, numbering five thousand men plus women and children. Roughly twenty thousand were on the hillside, listening to His Word and receiving healing from His hand. As the afternoon began to dim, the disciples asked Jesus to call it a day and send the multitudes away so they could get dinner. But Jesus didn't want to send them away. He wanted to feed them.

He asked Philip about a place to buy bread to feed the massive crowd. It was an important question, because it was a test. Philip's answer was accurate--even two hundred days’ wages worth of bread couldn't begin to satisfy this hungry mob. But Philip missed the point. He failed the test because in all his figuring, he forgot to figure in the Lord. Jesus was going to take a little sack lunch--five little cracker-like biscuits and two sardines--and use it to feed the masses. The food was going to be so abundant that there would be twelve baskets of leftovers! Philip forgot to factor in the miracle-working God!

LOOKING THIS WAY AND THAT WAY

When Moses killed an Egyptian in Exodus 3:12, the Scripture says, "So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand." Moses looked all around, but he failed to look up. There was someone watching, and His name is Yahweh!

Philip did the very same thing. He looked at the crowd, he looked at his calculator, and he looked at the cost of a loaf of bread in Israel. He looked all around, but he failed to look up. He failed to factor in the power of the Lord. Could you be guilty of doing the same thing today in your trial and trouble?

Every question the Lord asks is a test. He never asks a question for information, because He knows all things. He asks questions to get us to start looking at our problems and challenges through the eyes of faith. So much of what we face in life is beyond us ... and it is purposely so. We can't rise to the occasion, just like Philip couldn't buy enough bread to feed the multitude. The Lord places us in those predicaments to get us to look up, to learn to factor Him into every equation.

OUR EYES ARE ON YOU

King Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah found themselves in dire circumstances one day. Three enemy armies banded together to wipe out Judah. It didn't look good for the people of God. Jehoshaphat fasted and prayed, "O God will you not judge them? For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You" (2 Chronicles 20:12).

I love that prayer! It is so honest and so filled with faith. As Jehoshaphat looked this way and that, all he saw were armies poised to destroy him. His goose was cooked, but he chose to look up. He factored in God, and God responded with a great, miraculous victory!

ALWAYS LOOK UP

In your life and in your trouble, always remember to look up and figure in the God who made heaven and earth. Every trial is a test. God has not lost His ability to work miracles. He is simply waiting for people like you and me to say with King Jehoshaphat, "But our eyes are on You!"

Impossible is really I'm possible with God!

- From His Heart Ministries

02/07/2025

With Valentine's Day coming up, we want to soak in scripture about the greatest love, God's love for us.

02/05/2025

Imagine the roar of the crowd, now imagine the silence of those never given a chance to take their first breath. Let’s bring back America’s heartbeat.

02/04/2025

Be sure to join Family Research Council online for this event! See the original post for more details.

📣 NEXT WEEK is the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance.

Join Christian and government leaders at the Museum of the Bible to pray for the nation and ask God to forgive us of our sins.

👉 Get your tickets here: praydc.org

📺 Livestream will be available on the Stand Firm app. (frc.org/app)

02/04/2025

It happens all the time: parents establish strict rules about the movies their child can’t watch, the clothes they can’t wear, and the places they can’t go with their friends–and as soon as the child moves out, all those standards go out the window. Suddenly that child is doing things they never would have done while living under their parents’ roof. Why does that happen?

The fact is, external rules may or may not change a person’s behavior, but they cannot change the inward desires that fuel that behavior. The only way to achieve lasting change in a person’s external behavior is by changing their inward nature. That’s the theme Paul presented in Colossians 2.

Remember, there were false teachers in the church at Colossae who were saying, “Jesus Christ is important, but He’s not enough. To be a card-carrying member of the Christian faith, you need something else.” One group said you need human philosophy. A second group said you need to adhere to a man-made list of rules. A third group said you need a mystical experience.

We’re going to look at a fourth group of false teachers in the Colossian church: the ascetics. Ascetics believe in depriving yourself of pleasures in life such as food and drink, s*x, or money. Asceticism was particularly popular among Christians in the Middle Ages–they would wear scratchy shirts, sleep on hard beds, deprive themselves of food, or abstain from bathing.

Why would people engage in these bizarre practices? Asceticism flowed out of a philosophy called dualism, which is the idea that anything material is bad and only the spiritual is good. Now, Paul talked a lot about the flesh being evil. But he was not saying our bodies are evil because they’re flesh; he was saying our flesh has been infected by sin. There’s nothing about flesh that is evil in and of itself. The ascetics didn’t understand this. They believed the flesh was evil, and the only way to cleanse the flesh was to deprive it of certain pleasures.

Asceticism is similar to legalism–both involve trying to make yourself holy before God by following certain practices. But here is the shade of difference: Legalism says you earn God’s approval by keeping certain artificial regulations. Asceticism says you earn God’s approval by cleansing yourself of sin, and you do that by starving your body of pleasure. But God’s Word says depriving yourself of pleasure does not make you righteous before God.

- Dr. Robert Jeffress

02/02/2025

No one starts their journey with complete faith. It is full of successes and failures. Get your free digital Bible study, “God Develops Champions of Faith” from Love WorthFinding to learn more. Be encouraged, God will use your faith story! Get your free copy today through Love Worth Finding and this station.

02/01/2025

How easy it is for us, in today’s culture, to be swallowed by it all – bigger, better, more. How important it is that we get still and know that we can receive the wisdom from above that God promises to His children. Notice that this wisdom is – first of all – pure. That means it is without mixture or alloy. It calls us to be holy, to be separate, and to swim upstream against the current of our world. With wisdom from above, we are able to interpret things from a divine dimension, and we understand something of the way God works.

We can go with the crowd, or we can act on the basis of wisdom from our Living God. Choose correctly, and you will receive the ability in any situation, and in any relationship, to understand how God would have you live – and what He would have you do.

- Winning Walk

01/31/2025

It is the LORD’s love for us that makes Him want us to obey and praise Him. We were designed and purposed to obey and praise our Creator. God can call us to submit to Him, and honor Him, for our good, not to satisfy some need in God.

01/29/2025

Please join us in praying for the Sheppard family 🙏

01/29/2025

For all the football fans out there, do you agree?

I signed a coalition letter—led by Louisiana State Senator Valarie Hodges, Louisiana legislators, and pro-family organizations—to Super Bowl executives urging the NFL to ensure that the New Orleans' Super Bowl halftime show will reflect family-friendly values without “inappropriate imagery and content.”

01/28/2025

What makes our actions commendable to God?

Genesis 4 recounts the story of the first two children born in this world—Cain and Abel: “In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard” (Genesis 4:3-5). It is this sacrifice to which the author of Hebrews refers when he tells us about Abel and his faith.

First of all, he tells us that it was “by faith” that Abel offered a better sacrifice than his brother. It was through this sacrifice that Abel was “commended as righteous.” It would be easy to get lost in speculative theories as to why God accepted Abel’s actions but not Cain’s. But we need to stay focused on the facts that are given—and, at the heart of what we’re told, this fact is unequivocal: the actions which God accepts are satisfactory not because of their material content but because they are an outward expression of a devoted and obedient heart.

The reason why Abel’s sacrifice was acceptable was not because he offered a beast as opposed to a vegetable. The distinction wasn’t between the sacrifices offered but between the sacrificers themselves. John Calvin, commenting on this, notes that Abel’s sacrifice was preferred to his brother’s for no other reason than “that it was sanctified by faith.”[1]

This distinction concurs with what God communicates through the prophets. In Isaiah, for example, God says, “Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly” (Isaiah 1:13). It’s as if God is saying, I’m not interested in all the bleating of the calves and the goats and the lambs. I yearn for obedience more than sacrifice (see 1 Samuel 15:22). If you want to rely on these works as a means of making yourself acceptable to Me, I want you to know it will never happen.

“Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6, NIV). Our good works are a result of our acceptance by God, not a means to acceptance. They are our response to His love, not a means of securing it. If your actions, like Abel’s, are ever to bring God glory and pleasure, it will be because they are an outward expression of your love for, devotion to, and personal faith in Him. So today, do not obey Him in order to be accepted by Him or to remain accepted by Him. It is faith that secures that. Equally, do not complacently fall short of obeying Him because you are already accepted by faith. Instead, enjoy your place in His affections and let His pleasure be the motivation for your obedience.

- Truth For Life with Alistair Begg

01/27/2025

Psalm 119:15 says, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." If you're not staying in the light of God's Word, then what is illuminating your path?

01/26/2025

This New Year, make a resolution to grow spiritually and deepen your relationship with Jesus. Start your journey with Pastor Greg’s book Discipleship: The Road Less Taken. Receive your copy when you donate today. Go to harvest.org/donate/ to get it sent to you!