Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Old Testament

What Would We Ask For

MATTHEW 7:7-11 – “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?…

Living Life Right

PHILIPPIANS 1:21 – “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” THEME OF THE DAY: LIVING LIFE RIGHT.   There are two things I believe will prove to be the saddest experiences in life.  Should these characterize our lives now and at the end, we will feel the deep pains of regret and remorse with the nagging question, “Why…

Life Wil Not Unfold As We Thought

JEREMIAH 29:11-14 – “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.  You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.…

The Heart To Which God Responds

2 CHRONICLES 34:26-28 – ““But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard, because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and…

New Day, New Year, New Mercies

LAMENTATIONS 3:22-24 – “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”” THEME OF THE DAY: NEW DAY, NEW YEAR, NEW MERCIES.   Well, welcome to 2026!  For a good number of folks, today…

One Life To Live One Time

JAMES 4:13-17 – “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to…