Category: Devotional

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim 2/11/2019

by Jim Hughes Is. 6:1 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the LORD. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. If you were permitted to actually catch a glimpse of heaven, what would you expect to see? What would you expect to… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim 2/11/2019

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 2/4/2019

by Jim Hughes Is. 5:21 Destruction is certain for those who are heroes when it comes to drinking, who boast about all the liquor they can hold. I don’t know what your stand is on drinking and I do not want to make an issue of whether or not it is okay to… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 2/4/2019

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/28/2019

by Jim Hughes Is. 5:20 Destruction is certain for those who say that evil is good and good is evil; that dark is light and light is dark; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. There is no confusion with what God says. People don’t always want to hear what God has… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/28/2019

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/21/2019

by Jim Hughes Is. 1:18 “Come now, let us argue this out,” says the LORD. “No matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can remove it. I can make you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even if you are stained as red as crimson, I can make you as white… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/21/2019

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/14/2019

by Jim Hughes Eccl. 4:12-13 A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. There is strength in numbers. By ourselves we are too weak to stand for long. The opposition is too great… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/14/2019

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/7/2019

by Jim Hughes Eccl. 4:9-10 Two people can accomplish more than twice as much as one; they get a better return for their labor. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble. I worked in a factory for… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 1/7/2019

10 Questions to Ask at the Beginning of the New Year – 1/1/2019

Send to Kindle Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the Prophet Haggai. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on some of the things happening to them, and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality in light of what God… Continue reading 10 Questions to Ask at the Beginning of the New Year – 1/1/2019

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 12/31/2018

by Jim Hughes Eccl. 4:4 Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind. Do you envy others? Where is it getting you? Think about it. If you are motivated to do whatever you can do to… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 12/31/2018

Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 12/17/2018

by Jim Hughes Eccl. 3:18 Then I realized that God allows people to continue in their sinful ways so he can test them. That way, they can see for themselves that they are no better than animals. If God wanted to, He could make us do what is right in His eyes. He… Continue reading Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim – 12/17/2018