Daily Challenges Archive
“Good people obtain favor from the Lord, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.”
The past couple of devotions have focused on embezzlers, liars, cheats, and those who generally just want to drag others down. There’s no doubt Solomon directs much of his attention toward identifying these people, showing the results of their cho...
“The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.”
Integrity has always been a key part of what it means to be a Biblical Worldview leader. Without it, a person is missing the critical element that engenders trust. The opposite of integrity is dishonesty, corruption, and deceit. The word used for ...
“Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.”
R. Allen Stanford, Enron, Rita Crundwell, the 2011 Bank of Iran case, WorldCom—you might not know what all these have in common, but when I add Bernie Madoff to the list, I’m willing to guess most of us have a pretty good idea. Ok, Enron might hav...
“But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.”
I was in the pro shop of a private golf club the other day exchanging a gift. As I looked for something to swap it for, I overheard conversations from guys running in and out of the shop. Some came in because they needed golf balls; the others wan...
“I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.”
I bought a new Bible. It has literally been decades since I last bought a Bible I could hold in my hands. It was on my counter, and I saw my grandson (18 years old) looking through it the other day. I asked about his Bible, and he said it was a Ki...
“Today I fulfilled my vows, and I have food from my fellowship offering at home.”
I was just reading an article about the over 40-year career of Christian minister Ravi Zacharias, who built a reputation among evangelicals as the world’s leading Christian apologist. Ravi had a great impact on my oldest son. Knowing the whys and ...
“How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?”
The idea of a nap is pretty appealing to me. Rarely, however, does it happen. Thankfully, Solomon is not teaching against a good, well-deserved nap. He’s talking about laziness. This truth can be taken even further and seen when we are being led b...
“For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths.”
The omniscience of God is one of the six tenets of a Biblical worldview. That means if we don’t believe and live by that truth, we’re missing an important element vital to living the full Christian life. He sees everything—the good and the bad. Th...
“Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them.”
Forgetting and turning away are two very different things. Neither brings about God’s desire for our life. You would like to think that once a person has wisdom and understanding, they would be sure not to forget or leave them behind. However, thi...
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”
on the third of each month, as I go through Proverbs, I find it very difficult to move past this verse in search of another to share. I love this passage and its simple yet profound message. The words love and faithfulness in this passage are also...
“Who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.”
The marriage covenant made before God has been one of the most consistently broken of all the commitments we make before Him. Interestingly, the divorce rate has declined significantly since the 1980s—the exception being those 65 and older, the “g...
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Yesterday was Halloween. I’m not espousing a position on it in this devotion—if you want to know, you can ask. For today’s challenge, here’s a small piece of its history: “It marked a pivotal time of year when seasons changed, but more importantly...
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