John 1:40-42a – One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). He brought him to Jesus.” THEME OF THE DAY: SEEING JESUS. I stumbled across a book a few years ago entitled The Inner…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
Psalm 119:164 – Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.” THEME OF THE DAY. BEATING THE BLUES. Every Christian goes through those spiritual experiences called “the blues”; those down times of sadness, maybe discouragement or depression, that just don’t have a cause. We are not in sin. Nor are we totally dysfunctional. We simply are stuck in…
Psalm 100:3 – Know that the Lord, He is God! It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.” THEME OF THE DAY. HIS SHEEP UNDER HIS CARE. There is no greater place to find rest for our souls. There is no greater place to satisfy our hearts. There is…
DEUTERONOMY 26:16-19 – “This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules,…
Psalm 73:25 – Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides You.” THEME OF THE DAY. FIGHTING FOR CHRIST’s SUPREMACY. I think we would be hard-pressed to find a more appropriate verse than today’s scripture as the goal and daily pursuit in the Christian life. Is it not the cry of our hearts…
PSALM 46:10a – Be still, and know that I am God.” PSALM 139:6 – Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.” THEME OF THE DAY: RIGHTLY OVERWHELMED. Today the average American worker will receive 108 e-mails, 243 million Americans own cell phones or hand-held devices, and Google currently indexes more than 3,304,998,701 web pages. …