Daily Devotion

Rev. William Ilnisky Scripture: TITUS 2:13 The English word "hope" is translated from the Greek meaning "A CONFIDENT EXPECTATION." The believer is to confidently expect (i. e., to have full assurance without doubt) that the Lord will fulfill every...

Rev. William Ilnisky Scripture: Romans 15:13 Paul had a beautiful way of concluding an argument with a benediction. Here it is: "The God of hope." There is nothing hopeless about the Christian experience. "The God of hope" is both the One who gives...

Luke 3: 19 -20 --- John was so plain and blunt a preacher of righteousness that he was bound to run into trouble. In the end, Herod arrested him. Josephus says the reason for the arrest was that Herod "feared lest the great influence John had over...

Scripture: LUKE 3:7-18 Reflection Here we have the message of John the Baptist to the people. Nowhere does the difference between John and Jesus stand out so clearly because whatever the message of John was, it was not a gospel. It was not good...

Scripture : Luke 3:1-6 Reflection Having dealt with the world situation, and the Palestinian political situation, Luke turns to the religious situation and dates John's emergences as being in the priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas. There never at any...

SCRIPTURE: Luke 3:1-6 To Luke, the emergence of John the Baptist was one of the hinges on which history turned, so much so is that the case he dates it in is given in no fewer than six different ways. (1 st ) Tiberius was the successor of Augustus,...