MONDAY Reading for Today: Luke 11:29-36 2 Thessalonians 1:1-7 Psalm 144 2 Chronicles 17–19 Luke 11:29-36 The human eye is incredible, picking up the faintest glimmer of light. The eye’s retina contains over 10 million nerve cells interacting with each other to process the image of light you see. And in those nerve cells, 10 […]
“Liberty and justice for all.” So we say in our pledge of allegiance to the United States of America. Those words were penned long ago in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. Now they seem somewhat prophetic of our present times as a cry rings out against injustice in our land. The buzz word for our society […]
One of the changes we made when we redesigned The Lookout was to reduce the overall size of the publication. I explained our reasons for the change in an editorial I wrote last fall. We designed this new edition of The Lookout to fit neatly alongside your Bible so you can easily carry them together […]
God is sovereign over his kingdom. He decides who gets in and who is put out. Still he invites, entices, and pleads with people to accept the invitation into his kingdom. It is his good pleasure to give his people the kingdom (Luke 12:32). But those who are invited must respond. Our text comes once […]
Have you ever heard of unpaired words? Language experts consider a word unpaired if it stands alone even though on the surface it looks like it should have a straightforward opposite. For example, “dismayed” has no corresponding opposite (“mayed”). Here are some more examples: If you’re not disgruntled, are you gruntled? Since disheveled means you […]
