Daily Meditations on the Bible / We stand with Israel
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—
Thank you for your patience and your prayers. Debbie and I are getting our energy back slowly and I have found that I can still crank out a few more blog posts. Starting tomorrow, Lord willing, Three Minute Bible will be back online.
Continue reading “1 Timothy 2:1 — Thank you!”“You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” - Jesus
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ.
Thank you all for the prayers that have been offered on our behalf. God is gracious and we are coming through the other side of this thing. We still have a ways to go before we are firing on all cylinders. Thank you for your patience!
Blessings,
Jeff & Debbie
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Summary: Some kinds of knowledge are good for us. Other kinds a bad, even poisonous. Learning to tell the difference requires that we rely on Jesus to guide us.
Continue reading “Proverbs 9:10 — The Knegg Detector”
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
Summary: Happy Thanksgiving! I hope and pray that your day today is blessed beyond all reasonable measure.
Continue reading “Psalm 100:4 — Happy Thanksgiving!”
The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
Dear Reader,
The beginning of this daily blog was in response to two things: One was a personal challenge, the other was a perceived need.
Continue reading “Ecclesiastes 7:8 — The End of the Beginning”
I received an email asking if it is okay to share ThreeMinuteBible.com with others. The answer is yes! Absolutely!
This is not a commercial site, but that doesn’t mean we can’t share it. The mission here is simply to help people hungry for God’s Word to dive in deeper. The hope is that by exploring God’s Word in-depth, we grow stronger in our faith, and we find answers to questions along the way.
Continue reading “Sharing”
…but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Inside each of us is a monster. In this passage, James gives the monster a name. He calls it, Desire. This particular monster has a twin, whose name is Desire, too. This other desire is good. The Good Desire longs to be with Jesus and do his will. The Bad Desire… Well, Bad Desire is one that leads us away from God’s will.
The monster named Desire is hard to recognize because it is so adept at changing size and shape. Look around inside your head and your heart. Are you burning with desire? Is there something you want more than anything else? Is it a good desire or a bad desire? When we are content, Desire shrinks down into the shadows. Desire hides, but it never leaves.
Continue reading “A Monster Named Desire – James 1: 14-15”
I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
Throughout the gospels, we see moments where the disciples are absolutely convinced of Jesus’ divinity. In John 6: 69 we see Peter affirming this when he says, “We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” Yet there are levels of belief and we humans are bound in a temporal world. One minute Peter says “… you are the Holy One of God,” the next we see him denying he even knows Jesus.
Jesus wants us to really believe. When we possess the kind of belief that Jesus has in store for us it is no longer possible to doubt Jesus is who he says he is. When we really believe that Jesus is Lord is when the miracles happen.
Continue reading “More Belief – John 14: 29”
May the blessing of our risen savior, Jesus Christ, be upon you and your family today and forever.
He is risen!