Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:25-26, 28-30 (HCSB) This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sowContinue reading “Eat, Drink, and Put on Some Clothes (Lesson #42- Summer School with Jesus)”
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How to Cure the Disease of Worrying (Lesson #41- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:25a (HCSB) This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life… Today’s Question: How often do you worry about the issues of your life? Today’s Commentary: When you read the words, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” many of you will have a great disdain for me for the rest of the day.Continue reading “How to Cure the Disease of Worrying (Lesson #41- Summer School with Jesus)”
The “Stuff” People are Made Of (Lesson #40- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:24 (HCSB) No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money. Today’s Question: Do you own your possessions or do your possessions own you?Continue reading “The “Stuff” People are Made Of (Lesson #40- Summer School with Jesus)”
How’s the Vision of Your Mind’s Eye? (Lesson #39- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:22-23 (HCSB) The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness! Today’s Question:Continue reading “How’s the Vision of Your Mind’s Eye? (Lesson #39- Summer School with Jesus)”
Investment Advice from the World’s Greatest Leader (Lesson #38- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:19-21 (HCSB) Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will beContinue reading “Investment Advice from the World’s Greatest Leader (Lesson #38- Summer School with Jesus)”
What’s Your Belly Telling You? (Lesson #37- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:16-18 (HCSB) Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive so their fasting is obvious to people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward! But when you fast, put oil on your head, and wash your face, so that you don’t show your fasting to people but toContinue reading “What’s Your Belly Telling You? (Lesson #37- Summer School with Jesus)”
When Christians Cannot Forgive (Lesson #36- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:14-15 (HCSB) For if you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. But if you don’t forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing. Today’s Question: Whom does God require us to forgive? Today’s Commentary: Forgiving someone else can be one of the most difficult tasksContinue reading “When Christians Cannot Forgive (Lesson #36- Summer School with Jesus)”
The Significance of “100”
Today is my 100th post since this blog was born a year ago. This fact, however, is exponentially insignificant compared to another great “100.” This is the twentieth year that Operation Christmas Child will send shoeboxes to needy children all over the world. One of the shoeboxes will be the 100,000,000th box. Maybe that boxContinue reading “The Significance of “100””
Prayer in the Spiritual War (Lesson #35- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:13 (HCSB) Therefore, you should pray like this… And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Today’s Question: When are some times of the day that you are most tempted to sin? Today’s Commentary: At the very least, each person faces dozens of temptations each day.Continue reading “Prayer in the Spiritual War (Lesson #35- Summer School with Jesus)”
Prayer that Cleanses People (Lesson #34- Summer School with Jesus)
Today’s Reading: Matthew 6:12 (HCSB) Therefore, you should pray like this… And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Today’s Question: What emotions come to your mind when you see the word freedom? Today’s Commentary: There is a great feeling when one is completely debt-free. This has happened for a briefContinue reading “Prayer that Cleanses People (Lesson #34- Summer School with Jesus)”
Shepherding Well 