Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Psalms

Oh May It Never Be So!

PSALM 130 – Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice!  Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,…

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…

How God Deals With Us

  PSALM 103:8-14 – The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast…

Jesus Is Enough

PSALM 18:1-2 – I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  JESUS IS ENOUGH. Ask any Christian if today’s theme is true, and immediately the response would be…

No Shared Glory

PSALM 115:1 – Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!”   THEME OF THE DAY:  NO SHARED GLORY.  Do we feel the tension in the heart of the Psalmist writing today’s scripture?  He is in a war, and not a physical one.  And not against…