by MJR | Aug 23, 2024 | Genuine Hope
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Acts 16:25 How’s your day going so far? Is everything turning out the way you expected? I know what I have planned for today, but what happens when...
by MJR | Aug 22, 2024 | Genuine Hope
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 “Tell a lie once and your truths become questionable.” I don’t know the source of the quote, but it makes a valid point. At my business meeting...
by MJR | Aug 21, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful...
by MJR | Aug 20, 2024 | Genuine Hope
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. Hebrews 11:8 A week and a half ago, Patrina and I set off on a journey to places we had never visited before. We...
by MJR | Aug 19, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume. Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is...
by MJR | Aug 16, 2024 | Genuine Hope
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his...
