MONDAY Reading for Today: Luke 21:1-19 Hebrews 2:1-9 Proverbs 19:15-29 Isaiah 6–8 Hebrews 2:1-9 Important instruction in school was often prefaced with, “Now pay attention. This is important.” Most likely it would appear on the next test. The writer of Hebrews used the same literary heads-up. Pay attention so you do not drift away. Not […]
Sin is a “knotty” problem. The word “not” appears three times in our lesson text (Genesis 3:1, 3, and 4). The devil used the word twice, and Eve, quoting God, used it once. The devil told Adam and Eve that they would not die if they ate the forbidden fruit. But that was a lie. […]
A friend of mine recently completed a 360-degree performance review at work. Are you familiar with the practice? It’s called “360” because it requires asking everyone who works around you (as in a 360-degree circle) to evaluate your effectiveness on the job. My friend’s coworkers gave him positive marks, but their honest feedback revealed areas […]
Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson: 1. Following the 2016 presidential campaign, unsuccessful candidate Hillary Clinton released a book entitled What Happened. Why can examining a personal failure be a helpful exercise? 2. Consider a personal crisis of your own (loss of a job, financial difficulty, etc.). What did you […]
My attitude was horrible. I was complaining and criticizing, seeing the faults, not the growth, in other people. Nothing seemed to measure up to my standards. A friend and colleague noticed this and quietly but firmly asked, “You once said the lordship of Jesus Christ was paramount in your life. Has that changed?” Ouch! As […]
