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I love Jesus and I love photographing barns. Visit here every day for meaningful devotions and more.

10/30/2026

Quote Of The Day

10/30/2026

Verse Of The Day

10/30/2026

How Firm A Foundation

"How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word!
What more can He say than to you He hath said—
To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?"

If you are as old as I am, you may recognize these words as coming from a great hymn of the church, "How Firm A Foundation." The lyrics were written over 200 years ago by Robert Keen.

Our foundation - the foundation of the church - is laid "In His excellent Word." I love this. Our true foundation is God's very Word.

What we read in God's Word is where we make our stand. It defines our beliefs and it is the line that we draw when we are pushed by the world. This is never more clear than when we watch politicians and legislators make a farce of our beliefs by making laws and decisions based on their own personal feelings and emotions.

Those are not reliable things. They change from person to person, from generation to generation. Our foundation can only be scripture alone.

Scripture is God's Word and it is True and it never changes. God's Word is not True because we believe it; His Word is True because God has spoken it.

The infinite, eternal, sovereign God of the universe - Who does not change, Who is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, Who speaks and it is so - has spoken ... and it is so. It is so today, it was so yesterday and it will be so tomorrow. Forever more it is true. His Word may not be altered or changed.

This is how Jesus spoke about the Word of God:

Luke 16:17
"But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail."

Matthew 24:35
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away."

The Word of God is our foundation. We have built upon it, we stand upon it and we will always have His Word to lead us and guide us. Don't neglect the great gift that God has given to you.

Read it!

10/30/2026

Digging Deeper Into I John “Introduction-Pt 3”

10/29/2026

I’ll be praying today. Is there anything you’d like me to be praying about for you?

10/29/2026

Steps Of Faith — The Priests In The River (Part 4)

The River Wasn’t the Destination

Have you ever become so focused on getting through something that you forgot that God was taking you somewhere beyond it?

After 40 years in the wilderness, Israel was finally standing at the threshold of the Promised Land, but a river stood between them and what God had promised.

It would have been easy to make the river the whole story. How would they cross? When would the water recede? What were they going to do? But the river wasn’t the destination.

God didn’t bring them to the Jordan just to show them that He could stop a river. He was leading His people forward into the next chapter of His plan. The obstacle was there, but it wasn’t the end of the story.

When we face a difficult season, our prayers tend to get focused on getting through it. We want the problems settled. There’s nothing wrong with asking God for help. But we can become so concerned with the obstacle that we lose sight of the purpose beyond it.

God teaches us something through those seasons. He is preparing us, deepening our dependence on Him. We can trust that no obstacle ever places God beyond His ability to lead us.

After Israel crossed the Jordan, God told them to take 12 stones from the riverbed as a memorial (Joshua 4:1–7) to remember what God had done, but they were also to keep moving forward. The stones marked a crossing, not a place to settle down.

We should remember God’s faithfulness in yesterday’s trials without getting stuck in yesterday’s struggles. Don’t spend so much time staring at the river that you forget the land God brought you to.

You may be facing a river today. Ask God for the faith to take the next step, the patience to trust Him through the crossing, and the vision to see beyond the obstacle.

The river may be part of your story, but it doesn’t have to be the end of your story.

10/29/2026

The King Is Coming Bible Reading Plan

A 3-month Bible Reading Plan: A Journey from promise to advent

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