Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Old Testament

Our Glorious and Trustworthy God

PSALM 50:21 – These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  OUR GLORIOUS AND TRUSTWORTHY GOD.  There are four qualities in our God that will prove time and time again to be sources of encouragement when…

Don’t Give Him Second Best

MALACHI 1:6–10 – “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ By offering polluted food upon my altar.…

Blessing the Lord In Hard Times Too

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, and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword,…

Waiting on the Lord Is Not Passive

LAMENTATIONS 3:25–26 –  The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  WAITING ON THE LORD IS NOT PASSIVE.  What crosses our minds when the word “wait” is heard or read?  Don’t we get the sense…

How Quickly It Passes

JOB 14:1-2 – “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  HOW QUICKLY IT PASSES.  Life.  That is the “it” in today’s nugget’s theme.  When it comes to the Bible defining the nature of…