All this world offers pales in comparison to the glory awaiting those who know God’s grace in Jesus Christ. The best is yet to be. Today’s reading Proverbs 21-22; Second Corinthians 4 Selected Verses The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Proverbs 22:4 Knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people

More to Come Today we reach the final page of the Bible.  The book ends but the story is not over.  We yet await the fulfillment of all things when we enter our eternal home.  God’s redemption culminates in the glorification of His people.  Jesus prayed for it in these words: Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.  John 17:24 Today’s rea

Today’s reading:  John 3:1-4:54 My selection: Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you[f] do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he

Today’s reading: Haggai 1:1-Zechariah 3:10 My Selection: For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.  Zechariah 3:9-10 The prophet Zechariah, like many of the prophets in the Bible,

Mary Louise Fischer June 6, 1914 – September 10, 2016 The text came through on Saturday.  I went in the kitchen looking for my wife.  “Mary, Aunt Lou passed away this morning.” At 102 years of age, Mary Louise (Trout) Fischer had lived from before the beginning of World War I through the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, the Second World War,  the cold war, the space age, the information age, and through most of  the second decade of the third millennium.  She had seen