Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Old Testament

How Would You React?

Job 1:13-22 – Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 14 and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of…

How One Becomes A Backslider

Haggai 1:1-9 – In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people…

The Potential Evil Within: Against Others, God and Ourselves

Ecclesiastes 10:8-9 –  He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall. He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits logs is endangered by them. The sin of Jealousy: Evil against others: Ecc. 10:8, Gen. 37:18-25, Gen. 50:15, Gen. 50:19-21 The Cure: Peter – live under the…

No Matter How Hard Or Long

Song of Solomon 8:7 – Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. THEME OF THE DAY: NO MATTER HOW HARD OR LONG. The Lord Jesus said it would be so – “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the…

Our Jealous God

Exodus 20:3 – You shall have no other gods before me. THEME OF THE DAY: OUR JEALOUS GOD. The Bibles tell us that our God is a jealous God. Here are some scriptures reminding us of this truth- “For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God” (Exodus 34:14); “For the Lord your…

How We Walk With The Lord

Song of Solomon 2:16 – My beloved is mine, and I am his . . . THEME OF THE DAY: HOW WE WALK WITH THE LORD. The Bible says a lot about the theme of the day but three things may summarize the “how to” in our walks with the Lord; “Live by the Spirit, deny the flesh, and obey His commands.”…