Author: Pastor Dan Nickerson

I am confident that most of you, if asked, believe that the Bible is God’s infallible word, and that it contains the most important, and powerful words that have ever been given to man. But let me give you some statistics about the role of the Bible in American households from the Barna Research Group. It is reported that 92% of the households in America have a Bible, among those having bibles the average household has three. And less than half the people in the United States can name the first book of the Old Testament. In …

(1 Corinthians 11:22-34)…..²² What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you. ²³ For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; ²⁴ and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this …

(Hebrews 8:13)…..In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. The Old Covenant was an agreement between God and the children of Israel. We have the record of it in the Old Testament. The New Covenant is an agreement between God and Jesus Christ. Therefore it includes all who are united with Jesus Christ, or as the Bible says, all those who are “in Christ.” The name we give to the 27 books …

The first four verses of Hebrews is one of the most informative sentences relating to Jesus saying: “God, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself …

(2 Timothy 3:14-17)…..¹⁴ But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, ¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.…

(1 Corinthians 1:18-25)…..¹⁸ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom …

I want you to read the verse again from yesterday’s devotion, but I want to focus in on another word that is used in that passage, the word “gospel.” (Romans 16:21-27)…..²¹ Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen, greet you. ²² I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother. ²⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ …

(Romans 16:21-27)…..²¹ Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen, greet you. ²² I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother. ²⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. ²⁵ Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation …

(Psalm 27:11-14)…..Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. ¹² Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. ¹³ I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!

One of …

(Psalm 24:3-10)…..Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? ⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receive blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶ This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah

⁷ Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the …