by David Keesling | Feb 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
1 Peter 1:7 “These have come so that your faith … of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire … may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed” (NIV). Observation: Peter is encouraging me to...
by David Keesling | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ephesians 5:8 “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.” Observation: Paul has just encouraged the Ephesians to “be imitators of God … as dearly loved children … ” (Verse 5:1) We are told to be a “fragrant offering” (Verse 2), and to carry not so...
by David Keesling | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
John 20:6 “Then Simon Peter … arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen laying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’ head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen” (NIV). Observation: Mary Magdalene had...
by David Keesling | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
1 John 1:1–4 “What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life,...
by David Keesling | Feb 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
John 18:1 “When he had finished praying, Jesus left with His disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley” (NIV). Observation: This verse follows Jesus’s priestly prayer of John 17, the longest prayer of the New Testament. Jesus had prayed first for Himself, then for the...
by David Keesling | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
John 17:1 “After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed, ‘Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you’ ” (NIV). Observation: Jesus and His disciples had gathered for Passover where a long, far-ranging discussion had ensued....
