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Learning About the Father From the Son (June 26)
Jesus is described as “the faithful witness” (Revelation 1:5), which means He told the truth in everything He reported to mankind about God. He claimed He came from God, had direct knowledge of Him, and bore accurate testimony about Him.
God’s Steadfast Love (June 25)
I’m mighty glad that God’s love is steadfast. Were it not for His lovingkindness, this weak child of His would have been disinherited long, long ago. And, in Christ, I yearn for the sweet day when I shall be able to thank Him more properly.
The Lord’s Supper, the Lord’s People (June 24)
If we reject “organized” religion, where does that leave the Lord’s Supper? Are we really “Christians” today if we don’t take seriously an observance that, in the New Testament, was so extremely important to Christians in the New Testament period?
Seeking God and Seeking Truth (June 26)
When the vigor of our religious impulse is powered by truth about God, something happens that is very fine. We can soar high enough to begin tasting the freedom that Jesus spoke of: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Letting the Lord Decide (June 25)
If our reverence for God is real, we’ll show that reverence by yielding to His will, whether what happens next seems to be joyful or not. When faced with choices between good, better, and best, sincere seekers make these choices by deferring to God.
Unconditional Reverence (June 24)
It is more blessed to give than to receive. Even with God, we should derive more joy from giving than from getting. And it should not merely be because that is the way to “get” more blessedness. God was not created for us; we were created for Him.
Each His Own Burden, His Own Grief (June 26)
To live in this world is to know the pain of struggle and sorrow. So we can take it for granted that every person we encounter is struggling. We may not know the particulars, but it’s a safe bet that every person we meet is hurting in some way.
How Much Does Heaven Mean to Us? (June 25)
There is no denying that, as we grow older, our faces come to be a mirror of the contents of our hearts. “When you speak of heaven, let your face light up. When you speak of hell — well, then your everyday face will do” (Charles Haddon Spurgeon).
We All Live in the Same World (June 24)
The world remains the same generation after generation. There is a certain context common to all men and women, no matter when and where they have lived. We experience the same joys, we suffer the same sorrows, and we encounter the same challenges.
Thinking (June 26)
Thinking about what we experience adds a new depth to our enjoyment of the world. “Thinking,” as Lord George Noel Gordon Brown described it, “is the magic of the mind.” Not only can we enjoy things, we can enjoy the fact that we are enjoying them!
Nourishment (June 25)
We can grow better relationships by nourishing the quality of love we show. Amazing transformations in relationships can take place when we feed the affection that’s in our own hearts (or even used to be there), regardless of the immediate response.
Essentials (June 24)
Life can be complicated. The surface appearance of things can be deceiving. So we often need to slow down and call a halt to the commerce. If we’ll listen, our hearts and our consciences will tell us what the essentials have always been.
DFBS 326 – God requires spouses to honor their marriage commitment to one another
This week, let’s consider the honor and the trust that enable a marriage to be what God would want it to be. In the real world, the marriage covenant may not always be easy to keep, but keeping our promise will be well worth the effort.
DFBS 325 – Giving honor to God is the highest and best activity in life
There is a great deal of peace in realizing that giving honor to God is the highest activity in life. When we show the proper respect for God, we are doing the very thing we were created for. We find our destiny and our fulfillment in God’s glory.
DFBS 324 – To be baptized into Christ is to enjoy a ‘newness of life’
We can be thankful that, as those who have obeyed the gospel and received the forgiveness of our sins, “all things have become new” for us. We are living a “new” life, one that was made possible by Christ’s death and resurrection to life everlasting.
May 2026
I have begun a blog on Substack where I will post bits and pieces of the preliminary thinking that will, I pray, someday mature into a book. It’s called “Ecclesiastes Workshop” (https://ecclesiastesworkshop.com). You can subscribe to receive the posts by email or view them on Substack.
March 2026
I recently took a few days to assess the work that remains to be done on “Walking in Christ.” I’ve got 139 pages left to write, which sounds like a lot but it’s not nearly as many as the 366 I started with. It’s an exciting time in this this book, and I hope you’ll pray for clarity of mind as I head into the last stage of the writing.
January 2026
With God’s great help, I was able to meet my 2025 writing goals for “Walking in Christ.” I’ll have to keep my head down and stay focused to finish the remaining pages and have the book in your hands by the end of this year, but I believe it is doable.