by MJR | Jan 6, 2020 | Choices, Christianity, Commitment
Read: Joshua 24: 14-15 Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom...
by MJR | Jan 3, 2020 | Christianity, Commitment
Read: Philippians 3: 13-14 I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Reflect: Why is it that we make...
by MJR | Jan 2, 2020 | Christianity, Commitment, Compromise
Read: Daniel 1:8 But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. Reflect: To many of us, the phrase, “peer pressure”,...
by MJR | Jan 1, 2020 | Christianity, Commitment, Focus on Living
Read: Mark 12: 30-31 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”...
by MJR | Dec 31, 2019 | Christianity, Commitment
Read: Colossians 1: 10 So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Reflect: This time of year has the power to cause us to reflect on another year in the rear-view mirror...
by MJR | Dec 27, 2019 | Christianity, Faith
What kind of commitment would you be willing to make if you had to travel on foot or by camel? We know the shepherds were the first to arrive and worship Christ the Lord, but some time later a group of wise men made a trip of several hundred miles to pay tribute to...
