Author: Bubba Jonas

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He…

Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.”TITUS 2:9-10 PONDER THISWe might use the word becoming to mean, “to make beautiful.” For example, if a…

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.”COLOSSIANS 2:6-7 PONDER THISWe often forget the impact gratitude can have. It is so simple, but it is deeply powerful and meaningful when…

So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the…

So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”EXODUS 1:22 PONDER THISAt the time Moses was born, Pharaoh drowned the boy babies of the Israelites. And yet, Hebrews 11:23 reflects on the moment they hid Moses and says, “They were…

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.”HEBREWS 11:23 PONDER THISEvery child is unique. Children do not come in standard packages. You have to read the label. God has a way for every…

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth; the generation of the upright will be blessed.”PSALM 112:1-2 PONDER THISWhen my first son was born and I first laid eyes on him, something changed in my heart. I thought, “Oh, God,…

“Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah. The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod and household…

“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”1 THESSALONIANS 5:23-24 PONDER THISThere is a lot of danger when a pastor and his congregation start…

“And she said, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson!’ So he awoke from his sleep, and said, ‘I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!’ But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.”JUDGES 16:20 PONDER THISSamson defiled his purity and then diluted his power. His strength was…