Reading Time: 3 minutes
If you think about things like food, frustrations, family, finances, and the future, you are not alone. It’s natural and necessary to ponder subjects like these. But let’s not forget about faith!
Application
September 25 | Application (‘Finally!’)
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Before leaving on the mission trip, Candy and I wrote a list of goals: “Trust God. Love well. Encourage others. . . .” We should have added another goal: “Watch for what God teaches in unexpected ways.”
September 18 | Application (‘Can These Bones Live?’)
Reading Time: 4 minutes
I gazed at my weary listeners—mothers with young children, a scared-looking teenage boy, and some tired-looking old men and women with despair on their faces. How could I possibly help them?
September 18 | Discovery
Reading Time: 2 minutes
Looking at the entire passage (Ezekiel 37:1-14) what does the valley of dry bones and their reanimation represent . . . for Israel? For God’s church today?
September 11 | Application (‘Amazing Grace or a Blazing Pace?’)
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Corrie ten Boom said, “If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.” A lot of Christ followers are stressed out. We’ve exchanged amazing grace for a blazing pace.
September 4 | Application (‘Sound the Trumpet’)
Reading Time: 3 minutes
For generations of military members, bugles or trumpets literally served as a wake-up call when the rousing notes of “Reveille” stirred soldiers from slumber. This kind of trumpet call illustrates what the Lord had in mind when he told the prophet Ezekiel to be a watchman for the people of Israel.
August 28 | Application (‘Where Did the Glory Go?’)
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Architectural marvels constructed to glorify God have become museums and visitor attractions, not centers of worship and community service. Where has the glory gone?
August 21 | Application (‘I Am Who’)
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Prior generations of parents and grandparents may have passed along their own habits, hang-ups, and hurts, but eventually we must stop blaming others and take responsibility for our own actions.
August 14 | Application (‘Don’t Lose Your Bearings’)
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Long ago the prophet Ezekiel identified several danger signs of moral failure. How can we tell if our leaders are losing their bearings? Ezekiel 22 identifies five leadership pitfalls—ways the “princes of Israel” were veering off course.