Tag: Commitment
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GNB 4.287
December 15, 2025 THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT: JOY GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “The joy of the Lord is my strength.” (Nehemiah 8.10) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: Just wonder for a moment if the tables were turned. If we could see things at times from a different perspective would we change how we see ourselves?…
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GNB 4.237
October 16, 2025 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a [certain] future.’“ (Jeremiah 29.11) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: We must rest assured that what God presented to Jeremiah to…
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GNB 4.233
October 12, 2025 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should. “ (Ephesians 6.20b) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: If anyone thinks being a Christ follower is easy, then they do not understand the call to faith. When has it ever been easy to follow God? The challenges abound throughout…
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GNB 4.214
September 18, 2025 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: ““My sins have been bound into a yoke; by His hands they were woven together.They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength.He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.” (Lamentations 1.14) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD TO US: As I listened…
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GNB 4.206
September 9, 2025 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty in respect to the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself [or herself], then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup [in a worthy…
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GNB 4.164
July 22, 2025 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “‘I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to His temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,’ says the Lord Almighty.” (Malachi 3.1) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD TO US: God’s answer is…
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GNB 3.190
August 20, 2024 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “The word of the Lord Almighty came to me. This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I AM very jealous for Zion; I AM burning with jealousy for her.‘” (Zechariah 8.1-2) REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: God says to Zechariah: “I AM very jealous for Zion; I AM burning with jealousy for her.” I…
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GNB 3.179
August 6, 2024 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “The word of the Lord came to me…This will happen if you diligently obey the Lord your God.” (Zechariah 6.9, 15b) REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: We most certainly long for those “good old days.” In our memory, there are calm places, sweet places, good places, happy places and holy places where life just…
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GNB 3.099
April 29, 2024 GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY: “Find out what pleases the Lord. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we…
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GNB 2.226
9/29/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5.10) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: When I began this series of reflections on The Beatitudes, I suggested that their true focus was not visible in descriptors of blessing as the world understands it…