'keeping watch' Tagged Posts

'keeping watch' Tagged Posts

Daily Devotions

Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come.” vs. 33 Mark 13:32-37 The emphasis on keeping alert in the apocalyptic teaching of Jesus is puzzling to some. They wonder why it’s so important to keep awake, and why the sleeping would be excluded when the faithful are gathered into the kingdom. We’d expect that if the Lord returns in clouds with multitudes of accompanying angels there’d be such a stir that even the dead would…

Daily Devotions

The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and for evermore.” vs. 8 Psalm 121 Life is an ongoing cycle of going out and coming in. We know the pattern–up in the morning, out during the day, and then a coming home at night. Day after day, year after year, during good times and bad, from the time of our youth until the arrival of the golden years, the rhythm continues. And through…