By David Evans
The journey from being a student to a disciple
Taxes, Yokes, and Lessons from Rehoboam Hey Friends, this is David Evans your host and teacher. I hope that today finds you filled with joy and sunshine, and that this day will be the best day of your life. As Tax...
The Evil One, cursed be he, has one central way of attack. First, it is to tempt a person to sin, and then once he or she sins, is to push that individual deep into depression and sadness. If the...
In Proverbs chapter 3, we read this powerful truth: “Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.” King Solomon is writing about the extreme importance of kindness,...
Each one of us has experienced difficult times in our lives, and some of us may be going through a painful time right now. But God himself hears our cries for help and he knows and understands our weaknesses. In...
A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall...
Deuteronomy chapter 31 and verse 19 reads: “Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of...
“Everybody line-up!” I can still hear the PE teacher yell that early spring morning, as all of us kids scrambled to line up along the kickball field base line. “Today we are playing kickball.” “Tim; Aaron, you are the team...
Everybody goes through tough times in their lives. Circumstances that are beyond our control impact each one of us, and in the chaos we find ourself in a deep, dark valley. Some people through their own choices bring trials into...
The Bible goes into great detail concerning how the Tabernacle should be built. In very fine detail it explains each specific vessel that should be constructed and sanctified for service. The details are so precise that here in Jerusalem at...
One of the teachers of Torah came to Jesus while he was discussing the text and noticed that Jesus was giving great answers, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” The most important one,” said...
One of the great experiences as a father is to take your kids on a tremendous mountain hike. To be able to stand at the base of a mountain and to look up at the peak that seems so far...
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips. — Psalm 140:3 Everybody has heard the saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” However, anybody...
Isaiah 46:4: “And even to your old age I am he; and even to grey hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.” Around 600 BC the Babylonians...
Writing God’s Story — Deuteronomy 31:19 The last command that God speaks to Moses is to tell him to “Write down this song and teach it and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me…”...
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever. — Psalm 52:8 Temple Mount is one of the most hotly contested religious sites in the world. Currently the Muslim Al...
In Matthew 22:37 A student of the law came to Jesus and asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your...
One of the most overlooked topics in christian living is the concept of maturing as a Christian. Our verse today is 2 Corinthians 7:1 “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and...
“Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.” Psalm 79:13 When you read the Psalms, you quickly notice that most of the psalms focus on the...
Deuteronomy 2:3: “You have circled this mountain long enough, turn yourself north.” Do you feel like your life is one endless walk around and around a mountain. No matter how hard you try or how fast you walk you end...
Deuteronomy 4:39 says, “Know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.” There once was an old farmer who had worked his crops...
“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.” Isaiah 54:2 The prophet Isaiah is writing to the people of Jerusalem about 700 years before the time of...
In Numbers 13, the children of Israel are being commanded by God to send men into the land of Canaan. God says to send a man from each of the tribes to spy out the land. Moses quickly gathers 12...
Imagine with me if you can that you are one of the children of Israel as you stand together at the base of Mount Sinai, anxiously awaiting to hear the Word of God. In an amazing display of power, God...
