THE CROSSING GUARD

THE CROSSING GUARD

Vol. 7, No. 34 – August 28, 2022 Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at...
ASK

ASK

Vol. 7, No. 33 – August 21, 2022 I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. –Song of Songs 5:2 In my repertoire of illustrations, I have some things I have neglected to jot down the source. The following conversation is one of those: Excuse me,...
STUCK

STUCK

Vol. 7, No. 32 – August 14, 2022 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “the...
LOVE

LOVE

Vol. 7, No. 31 – August 7, 2022 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved...
GRACE

GRACE

Vol. 7, No. 30 – July 31, 2022 By the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. –1 Corinthians 15:10 Thus, Paul contemplates...
MERCY

MERCY

Vol. 7, No. 29 – July 24, 2022 For everything, there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a...