Gleanings From The Word

Daily devotionals from Scripture to nourish your faith, deepen your prayer life, and grow in God's grace.

Ephesians

Little Foxes, the small sins that ruin 0

Little Foxes, the small sins that ruin

Some years ago, we caught sight of this little cross fox near the Star Lake Fishing Resort, Clearwater, BC. He saw us coming down the road and hid, but his curiosity got the better of him, and he peeked up again to look at the car for a moment. It isn’t a great shot, but it’s the only one I could get. There is a...

Faith and Works: Resting in the Balance God Designed  0

Faith and Works: Resting in the Balance God Designed 

There is a weird tension in Christianity between faith and works. The bible is abundantly clear that we are saved by faith For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10 At the same...

# Right Belief Must Become Right Living 0

# Right Belief Must Become Right Living

Recently, I slammed my hand in a door. I’m ashamed to admit that a stream of pre-Christian expletives came out of my lips. By and large, I’ve done a good job of removing those words, but I can still slip. There are times when what I do or say doesn’t align with what I believe or who I profess to be. Theologians have two words...

The Gospel – the best news you will ever hear 0

The Gospel – the best news you will ever hear

You know the silence that falls right before you open an envelope, or pick up the phone, when you have already braced for the worst. Most of the time the news matches the dread. But every now and then it does not. Every now and then you brace yourself and find out the test was clear, or the debt was settled, or the answer was...

The Calling 0

The Calling

Gad has placed a calling on your life

Called to right beliefs and right living

There isn’t a church group or a Christian alive who hasn’t got at least some part of the picture wrong. Still we are called to both right beliefs and right living