Devotionals
A daily word of encouragement, exhortation and edification, drawn from the Scriptures.
That None Should Perish
That none should perish but have everlasting life is the perfect will of God. Of course, this does not mean that none will perish for the twentieth chapter of Revelation tells us otherwise. There we read that "anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into...
Don’t Live For Yourself
The saddest person, the loneliest person, the most unfulfilled person is the individual whose life orbits around one thing - self. How empty, how sad. To live for the pleasure of self is an indication that one is truly dead. The only way to be freed of self is...
How To Grow In Grace And Maturity
Proverbs 9:7-9 He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself. Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach...
The Healing Touch of Jesus
Mark 5:34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.” I love to read the gospels and “see” how Jesus ministered His healing touch to those who were in humanly impossible situations. As we move ahead in...
Redemption: The Heart of the Gospel
In Romans 5 verse 8, Paul writes that the love of God is being demonstrated for us in that while we are yet, or still sinners, Jesus Christ died for us. Charles Spurgeon wrote: “The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the...
The Gospel Is Not Good Advice, It’s Good News!
Hebrews 9:11-12 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the...
Jesus The Redeemer and Revealer of The Father
John 1:18 (NLT) No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God,... has revealed God to us. An interesting revelation is found by studying the life of Jesus as it is given to us in the four gospels. When we read the gospels there is a tendency to only...
Living Faith
When Barnabas visited the church at Antioch, he saw the grace of God and was glad. (Acts 11:22,23) Obviously, for the grace of God to be visible, their faith was alive and evidenced by good works. Remember how the four men brought their hurting friend to Jesus? The...
Open Our Eyes, Lord
2 Kings 6:15-17 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with...
The Truth About Temptation
The early days of the church saw the emergence of many strange and dangerous doctrines. Many of the epistles were written to expose and correct some of these false teachings. James is no exception to the rule. There were those who were saying that God was the source...
Saving Faith Is Visible
At the end of this wonderful epistle, our dear brother James talks about the importance of honesty in our dealings with one another (James 5:12), what to do when you are afflicted or merry (v. 13), and who to call when you are sick (vv. 14,15). He also touches upon...
Patience And The Last Days
Five times we are going to hear James referencing the virtue of patience in our study this morning (James 5:7,8,10,11). He uses it in the context of living in the last days (James 5:3,8). (1 Peter 5:7). When Jesus gave His last days discourse as recorded in Luke’s...
Glorious Reconciliation
I never tire hearing the gospel message. I look forward to Communion services in a very special way, because of how the Lord has used them so many times to get my heart refocused on the eternal and off the temporal. As we read today about Paul’s heart in reaching the...
Not of This World
Philippians 1:1-2 Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul’s letter to the Philippians...
Divine Counting
This morning we begin a study in the book of James. Every single chapter and verse is tailor-made to challenge us in our faith. Brother James is writing to the Jewish believers scattered because of their belief that Jesus (Yeshua) is their Messiah (James 1:1). So he...
Faith – Dead Or Alive?
Saving faith is a faith that is in the heart, not just the head (Romans 10:8-10). It indeed is vocal about what it believes, but it is not just a bunch of words with no fruit or evidence of new life (1 Corinthians 4:19,20). James tells us today that believing in God...
Rejoice!
Philippians 4.4 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Too often the Christian loses sight of this most important truth. We seem to find ourselves regularly in the slough of despair. I cannot always rejoice in the circumstances, but I can rejoice in...
An ugly condition in a beautiful place
Acts 3.1,2 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that...
Come near, saith The Lord
Isaiah 48.15,16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me. Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy...
Just What The Doctor Ordered!
“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed...
Waiting in Darkness
Isa 50.10 Who among you fears the LORD, listening to the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness, and has no light? Let him trust in the name of Yahweh; let him lean on his God.(HCSB)The Christian life is not only a wonderful adventure, it is also a...
Displeasure with God’s goodness
Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. What was it that displeased Jonah? The fact that God was gracious, merciful, slow to anger and kind towards the repentant Ninevites. Jonah had expected the Ninevites to reject God’s message and...
The power of waiting on God
Psalm 62.1 Truly (Only) my soul waiteth upon God: from Him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. The original is, "only to God is my soul silence." The emphatic word in this Psalm is only (vs.1,...
The Wells Of Salvation
The Hebrew word for the English word “salvation” is “yeshuw`ah”, which in the New Testament is translated, “Jesus”. Jesus, of course, is more literally “Yeshua”, being a Hebrew name (Matthew 1:21). This morning we will be looking at a text that speaks of “the wells of...
A Word About Wisdom
Our study in James this morning brings us to the subject of wisdom. The Scriptures, however, clearly reveal to us that not all wisdom is godly wisdom. There is a wisdom of this world that is devastating in its effect upon others. In contrast, there is wisdom from...
Watch Your Tongue!
This morning James introduces us to a topic that hits home, and that is, the power of the human tongue and the words that we speak (James 3:1-12). Our speech has the capacity to bless others (Ecclesiastes 10:12a) or hurt them terribly (Proverbs 26:22). The unruly...
Whose Friend Are You?
James 2:23 … Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. James tells us that Abraham believed God, and was called God’s friend. He then tells us that to be a friend of the world is equivalent to being an...
Hiding in the shadow of The Almighty
Psa 57.1,2 [[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.]] Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] calamities be...
Our Fellowship in the Trinity
Eph 2.18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. The Christian faith is both a profound mystery and profoundly simple at the same time. The doctrine of the Trinity is taught from the first verse in Genesis throughout the entire canon of...
Good figs
Jer 24.7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.In the midst of the many prophecies of judgment given by the prophet Jeremiah, we read...
Emboldened by the promises of God
1 Kings 18.1,2 Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in...
About Me
I am the Lead Pastor of Koinonia Fellowship, a husband, father and grandfather. I also serve on the worship team as one of the drummers.