PSALM 138:7 – Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.” Don’t we wish it were true? Don’t we desire that the opening of today’s scripture would read, “As I walk a life of no trouble instead of I walk in…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
PSALM 139:1-4 – O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.” So, imagine…
This Lord’s Day, we encounter more characters in Job’s story – his three friends. As we observe them, we find great qualities necessary to be a true friend as defined by their example and the scripture.
PROVERBS 12:25 – Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs him down, but an encouraging word brings him joy.” It has been said, “Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.” And if we looked around our neighborhoods, communities, workplaces, even our churches, there are a lot of people who are “suffocating” in all of life’s depressing things and need some “encouraging oxygen.” In…
JOB 1:20-22-Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshipped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.”…
HOSEA 6:1-3 – Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know; let us press on to know…