Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Isaiah

An Encouraging Word for Discouraging Times

In light of a positive COVID test of a member in our church and the desire for us to be wise and protective, this Lord’s Day service will be live streamed only. We also will take a one week departure from our 1 Thessalonian study to be in one of the most encouraging chapters in the Bible when times are most discouraging – Isaiah 40.

When God Turns Up The Heat In Our Lives

ISAIAH 48:10-11 – Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. THEME OF THE DAY. WHEN GOD TURNS UP THE HEAT IN OUR LIVES. If we…

Behold Your God

ISAIAH 35:4 – Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.” THEME OF THE DAY. BEHOLD YOUR GOD. How does a Christian grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus (2 Peter 3:18)? How do we pursue what…

What Type Of Clay Are We?

ISAIAH 64:8 – But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. THEME OF THE DAY. WHAT TYPE OF CLAY ARE WE? Soft and pliable or hard and unworkable? Those are the only two options in answering the question defining the theme of today’s nugget. And…

Desire Turned Pursuit

ISAIAH 62:6-7 – On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest, and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth. THEME OF THE DAY. DESIRE TURNED PURSUIT. If we quizzed a…

The Heart Of God And Prayer

ISAIAH 56:6-7 – “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt…