Weekly Devo

          Now day’s it seems the world revolves around marketed themed ideas. Especially these most recent generations in the church. They seem to have their faith bond by these trends. Anything from coffee and Comfort Color tee’s to Chaco’s, Eno’s and tattoos. Yet God’s word and faith has nothing to do with any of that. I suppose it has been this way for generations. Just look in the church. What is consider “nice church cloths” shows its extreme variants every Sunday morning.   Somehow, John the Baptist, a mountain man of sorts for is his time, was still able to do God’s work. Wearing camel hair, a leather belt around his waist and eating locusts and wild honey he prepared the way for Christ. (Matt. 3:4) John the Baptist did not command that you had to dress like him to follow Christ. He did not set any trends in fashion or marketable ideas either.         I have yet to see in scripture that those...

  "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom,..." Col. 3:16 If you take your child to Sunday morning worship only they get 52 hours a year of church interaction, 26 hours passive listening to the bible. If you go to class and worship they receive 52 hours of passive listening. If you go twice Sunday they get 78 hours of passive bible listening. If you go on Wednesday nights too they get 130 hours a year  of passive bible listening. Out of the 208 hours, never missed, year of attendance they only get 130 passive listening hours of which they forget 90% of what's taught in five days.   Compare that to the 1,280 passive listening hours they get in school, 960 hours a year doing h/w and extras, and finally 2,912 hours for weekends and breaks spent enjoying worldly things. 5,152 hours spent not focused on God in a year compared to 130 passive hours of listen to God's word. What's wrong with this picture?   Then in four years they ...

Col. 2:1-10 There are three strong statements that let us know all we need is the word. We are to attain “to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding” . ( Col. 2:2-3 ) That is awesome! Not only can we understand but we can have full assurance that we understand. There are riches in the understanding of God’s word. Spiritual riches that come from the knowledge of Christ. In Him are all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom.   The word goes on to say “ as you have been taught ”. ( Col. 2:7 ) We are to walk in Christ. ( Col. 2:6; 1 John 2:6 ) Being “ rooted and built up ” in Christ and established in the faith. As we are taught. We are taught by the word. We can know how be established in faith, rooted, and be built up in Christ. We know by the word of God.   We are firm in our faith because of the truth that Christ brought. Truth has taught us all we need to know that pertain to life and godliness. ( John 1:17;2 Pet. 1:3 )    Do we need to philosop...

Col. 2:6-8                   We often seek the wisdom of the world. Not that we really mean too, it’s just the prominent concept out there. Even the phrase “common sense” is based on the philosophy of the world. That same “common sense” would say don’t give to a thief. Christianity says just the opposite. (Matt. 25:34-40; Luke 10:30-37)       It is so easy to do to follow the world. We are taught 8 hours a day for 5 days a week for 12-13 years the philosophy of the world, traditions of men, and basic principles of the world. That doesn’t include sports, clubs, social events, friends, family, T.V., radio etc. Let’s look at the math for a minute. We spend 4,032 hours of our growing life, only counting school, learning about man’s ways and man’s teachings. While, if you only went to and studied at church every Sunday and Wednesday, 2,496 hours are spent learning about God’s way....

Are You Teaching?   Luke makes it clear that his first letter, Luke, was written so that we would know what Christ did and taught   (Acts 1:1). Christ brought truth and taught it every where He went. He taught all day from the early morning to the late evening ( John 1:17; Luke 21:37-38).   He taught in such a manner  that all the people were astonished at His teaching (Mark 11:18). We are to be teachers and we are to walk as He walked. Are you teaching as He did?   

The Snow                Here in Northern Alabama we received 8 inches of snow over the last 24 hours. What a winter land we have today. One of the awesome things about snow that many don’t know is it’s a purifier. Snows has the ability to clean impurities out of the environment. When it melts it slowly deposits them into the earth to further rid the environment of those impurities and provide much needed nutrients. Not to mention the slow melting process supply’s the earth with water much more efficiently than rain. The Blood                This snow brings to mind the cleansing process of baptism that we read about in 1 Pet. 3:21. The blood of Christ does to our lives what snow does for our environment ( Rev. 1:5 ). Although some may say it’s foolishness others say it’s the power of God ( 1 Cor. 1:18 ). Just how many feel about sn...

A growing church is a church of the Word. We are to do the things Christ said ( Luke 6:46 ). The apostles taught what He said ( Acts 2:42 ). All of scripture is what Christ said ( 2 Tim. 3:16-17 ). We are to let it dwell richly in us ( Col. 3:16 ). We are to stand fast and hold to the traditions, which we are taught whether by word or letter ( 2 Thess. 2:15). He told us to preach the gospel in all the world to every creature ( Mark 16:15 ).