“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 39:1 – 40:16 (“The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by…
LightGrams December 12, 2019 Volume 23, Number 39 I’ll have to admit that I’m impressed with William Clark. Though I’ve never met him, this professor at New York’s Binghamton University set a new Guinness World Record by bending seven railroad spikes in a minute. The previous record of four spikes bent in a minute was…
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 23:1 – 24:10 (“The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the intents of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “For the…
LightGrams December 5, 2019 Volume 23, Number 38 Heather Langley is a jeweler who works in Bessemer, Alabama. In the summer of 2018 a customer told her about a ring he found in the early 1990s while working at Mount Bachelor in Bend, Oregon. Langley began searching for the ring’s owner using first names engraved…
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 17:1 – 18:23 (“Then the word of the Lord came to me: ‘O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand,…
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 7:1 – 8:22 (“As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “The…
LightGrams November 21, 2019 Volume 23, Number 37 A family in the United Arab Emirates just set a new Guinness record. They have completed the largest handwritten copy of the Bible on record, and it took them 153 days to do it. The wife, Susan Varghese, began the project, but her husband and two children…
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 1:1 – 2:37 (“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “Love one another with brotherly…
LightGrams November 14, 2019 Volume 23, Number 36 A man who died is technically released from his obligations, right? His heirs may have to assume his debt, but that man will pay not another penny on bills he assumed in his previous life. We would all agree to this proposition; how could we not? But…
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Joshua 23:1 – 24:33 (“After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness.” …