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Keeping His Words (1/8/2023)
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and...
Joe Norton
Jan 8, 20231 min read


The Keeping of Vows (1/1/2023)
“Better not to vow than to vow and not pay” (Ecclesiastes 5:5). God has always demanded integrity from His people; and the keeping of...
Joe Norton
Jan 1, 20231 min read


Jesus: Our Propitiation (12/25/2022)
“Therefore in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining...
Joe Norton
Dec 25, 20221 min read


An Attitude of Humility (12/18/2022)
“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but...
Joe Norton
Dec 18, 20221 min read


Return from Spiritual Death (12/11/2022)
“Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error...
Joe Norton
Dec 11, 20222 min read


Love Your Neighbor (12/4/2022)
“And the second is like to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). After having told His followers that loving...
Joe Norton
Dec 3, 20221 min read


God’s Requirements (11/27/2022)
“Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! “For the Lord has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, “And they have rebelled...
Joe Norton
Nov 27, 20221 min read


Three Rules for Living (11/20/2022)
“He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with...
Joe Norton
Nov 20, 20221 min read


Understanding Temptation (11/13/2022)
“Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But...
Joe Norton
Nov 13, 20221 min read


Light at the End of the Tunnel (11/6/2022)
“Those who sow in tears, Shall reap in joy. “He who continually goes forth weeping, Bearing seed for sowing, “Shall doubtless come again...
Joe Norton
Nov 6, 20221 min read


Working Heartily as to the Lord (10/30/2022)
“Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart,...
Joe Norton
Oct 29, 20221 min read


Walking Worthy (10/23/2022)
Continuation of last week’s Thought “…that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and...
Joe Norton
Oct 22, 20221 min read


Filled with Knowledge (10/16/2022)
“For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge...
Joe Norton
Oct 18, 20221 min read


Friendship with the Master (10/09/2022)
“And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ And he was called...
Joe Norton
Oct 10, 20221 min read


Not a Spirit of Fear (10/2/2022)
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7). In scripture, the word...
Joe Norton
Oct 2, 20221 min read


Open My Eyes (9/25/2022)
“Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law” (Psalm 119:18). No one section of scripture—be it Old or New...
Joe Norton
Sep 25, 20221 min read


Get Away from Here (9/11/2022)
“Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan” (1 Kings 17:3). Elijah has just...
Joe Norton
Sep 11, 20221 min read


Personal Responsibility (9/4/2022)
“The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness...
Joe Norton
Sep 4, 20221 min read


Mind the Gap (8/28/2022)
“So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land that I should not destroy...
Joe Norton
Aug 28, 20221 min read


Teaching on Baptism (8/14/2022)
“Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, ‘See, here is water. What hinders me from being...
Joe Norton
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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