The Daily Memo | September 21, 2023 | Made Perfect
Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. (1 Corinthians 15:49 NLT) You’ll be made perfect. Finally, the totality of your being will be saturated only with goodness. Think of all that you’re not going to have to wrestle with anymore. The fear that has been […]
The Daily Memo | September 13, 2023 | Everything Is Against Me
“This morning I thought I was worth a great deal of money; now I don’t know that I have a dollar.” Former US president Ulysses S. Grant said those words the day he was swindled out of his life’s savings by a business partner. Months later, Grant was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Concerned about providing […]
The Daily Memo | September 11, 2023 | A Promise Kept
The first chapter of Matthew’s gospel records the lineage of Jesus. Starting with Isaac, the miracle child born to Abraham, there are 42 generations until the universe-altering event of the Savior’s birth. Among the names listed, there are schemers, prostitutes, murderers, kings, and idol worshippers. Many of these men and women had their lives transformed […]
The Daily Memo | September 7, 2023 | Just Try It
There’s something I’d want to encourage you to consider. Drum roll, please! Invest the first 15 minutes of your day in the presence of the Lord. In silence, in prayer, and in God’s Word. Ask Him to open your heart to what He has for you in those opening moments of your day. If you […]
The Daily Memo | August 9, 2023 | The Joy Set Before You by Guest Author Michael Kurtz
As reported in the news recently, four Nigerian men were discovered and rescued in Brazil after crossing the Atlantic from Africa as stowaways on a cargo ship. The four exhausted men spent fourteen harrowing days perched inside the shallow opening above the ship’s rudder, under the stern. They ran out of food and water ten […]
The Daily Memo | July 5, 2023 | On Vacation Thought for the Day | True Faith
“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.”—Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God.