Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Psalms

He Will Do It Again

Psalm 4:1 – Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!”   THEME OF THE DAY. HE WILL DO IT AGAIN. Humans are creatures of habit.  It doesn’t take long to look into our lives and see this is true.  I see…

When We Don’t Feel Like Church

Psalm 5:7 – But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.”   THEME OF THE DAY. WHEN WE DON’T FEEL LIKE CHURCH.  I want you to be honest.  Real honest.  Are there ever any Sunday mornings you don’t feel like going to church?  If…

Beating the Blues

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…

Rightly Overwhelmed

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. …