I recently decided to start blogging my Quiet Time so that I could be more accountable. This is not an acedemic look at the passage. It is just my devotional thoughts.
Jeff Breshears
Vertical Life Ministries
Reaching a Lost Generation
Jeff’s QT
- Planting Too Soon—Trusting God’s Plan May 7, 2012Graduations, flowers, and warmer weather. Spring is in the air and we are gearing up for a busy summer of ministry. Like many of you, I am ready for the change of seasons. Maybe too eager. Last year about this time, I decided to surprise my wife with flowers for our yard. I went out [...]
- Is God Really in Control? March 25, 2012Everyday we are reminded of the great need of this generation for the truth. Youth culture is constantly changing. What is cool today, may be out tomorrow. Students are under a lot of pressure from the culture and peers. The recent school shooting in Ohio underscores the turbulent world our students face everyday. The unchanging [...]
- Making Your Case February 5, 2012Stepping out in faith and serving God means asking others to believe in what you are called to do and supporting it. I have never liked asking others to give. But I must admit once I knew that God wanted us to do this, it was easier to ask others to join in. Everyone can be a [...]
- New Year New Hope January 17, 2012I know, I know….the word “hope” was probably one of the most overused words in the last couple of years. But it is a powerful word for Christians everywhere. Our hope is not found in any politician or the stock market. With each new day, month, and year, there is always hope. I define hope [...]
- Psalm 80:1-19 September 6, 2009This psalm is a prayer for God to restore Israel. God has been trying to get their attention, and they are now starting to listen. It is an all too familiar cycle for the people of Israel. It is often an all too familiar cycle for the church, for you and me. It is easy [...]
- Psalm 78:59-72 September 4, 2009This passage and the one before it, describe a jealous and angry God who has poured out blessing on a people only to have them carve idols and worship them. The Israelite people show little or no loyalty to their God. God has proven himself to them and yet they turn their back on him [...]
- Ruth 1:1-14 August 23, 2009This is the story of Ruth and Naomi. The set up is this, there is a famine in the land. Naomi has two sons but both of them die along with her husband. She is left alone with her two daughter in laws. They have nothing. News comes that in Judah God has provided food [...]
- Jude 1:20-25 August 22, 200920But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. 21Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. 22Be merciful to those who doubt; 23snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show [...]
- Colossians 2:8-15 August 2, 20098See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. 9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head [...]
- Colossians 2:1-7 July 31, 20091I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. 2My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they [...]
