Welcome to Pastor Carl Miller’s Blog! We hope that you are encouraged in your walk with the Lord through these devotions.
From the Pastor's Pen (Page 2)
“Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, as when at first He lightly esteemed the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walked in darkness have seen…
“Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God.” – Psalm 42:5 “It feels like a curtain of darkness closed within me. I’ve been overwhelmed by a heavy sadness that consumes me.…
“I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works” – Psalm 9:1 As is true in many of his psalms, David opens Psalm 9 telling of his open lips of praise to God. If you were to have heard David doing so, you would have heard…
“Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,…
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Paul begins his exhortations on some details of Christian living with what some would consider “tall orders.” However, I want you to notice how these things take our focus away…
“But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,” Titus 3:4-5 As Paul has painted the backdrop of the depravity of man…
In Tolkien’s works, one of the constant themes throughout the story is seen in the hobbits. They are small, insignificant. They have none amongst the ranks of great heroes or thinkers. Yet, it is a small band of hobbits that successfully bring the Ring to the fires of Mt. Doom, and save the free peoples…
“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the…
The Lord Jesus Christ said “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” in John 14:6. Far too often we brush past this, not thinking what Christ is actually saying here. Is He saying that if we trust in Him, we will be saved? That He is the only Way to heaven? That He…
“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” ~ John 14:25-26 Jesus, the great and marvelous Savior, Teacher, and…