The Cave People
by Max Lucado

He came to the world that was his own, but his own people did not accept him.
-John 1:11

LONG AGO, OR maybe not so long ago, there was a tribe in a dark, cold cavern.

The cave dwellers would huddle together and cry against the chill. Loud and long they wailed. It was all they did. It was all they knew to do. The sounds in the cave were mournful, but the people didn't know it, for they had never known joy. The spirit...

I know it's not politically correct to say it, but that doesn't stop it from being true: Jesus is the only way. If He were not the only way, then His death would mean nothing.

His death is everything. It was the only way & so is He!

John 10: 9-11:
I am the door: by me if any man enter in , he shall be saved , and shall go in and out , and find pasture.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal , and to kill , and to destroy : I am come that they might...

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.


The Christian life is a changed life! We know this because the Scripture says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” You and I are changed by God!
But catch this. The Christian life is also an exchanged life! Isaiah 40:41 says, they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength. Now,...

March 13-14

The God Who Comforts
2 Corinthians 1:3-7

Look up "comfort" in dictionary.com or another reference, and you will read a definition like this: "Something that promotes a state of ease or provides freedom from pain and anxiety." But God's Word has a different solution when consolation is needed: the indwelling Holy Spirit. In Greek, He is called parakletos, which means "he who stands at one's side; he who comes to one's aid."...

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour." — Matthew 5:43



"Love thy neighbour." Perhaps he rolls in riches, and thou art poor, and living in thy little cot side-by-side with his lordly mansion; thou seest every day his estates, his fine linen, and his sumptuous banquets; God has given him these gifts, covet not his wealth, and think no hard thoughts concerning him. Be content with thine own lot, if thou canst not better it, but do not look upon thy neighbour,...