PSALM 92:4 – For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy. THEME OF THE DAY. GOSPEL JOY. Joy is to characterize the Christian life. Christians are not to live “grumpy” lives. We are not to “mope” around with gloomy faces looking as if a smile is a rare or…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
MARK 6:45-52 – Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray. 47 And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the…
MARK 1:21-27 – And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, “What have you to…
MATTHEW 4:1 – Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. THEME OF THE DAY. YES, HE WILL TEST US. We need to establish two things before we go into “the meat” of today’s nugget. First, the temptation of Jesus itself. Obviously, this was not a temptation to sin. Jesus could not have…
JOHN 15:9 – As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. THEME OF THE DAY. THE LOVE OF CHRIST FOR HIS OWN. In today’s scripture, our Lord Jesus said the most profound truth a human being may ever hear and experience. To know the love of Christ, not in our heads as knowledge but in our hearts with power,…
PSALM 71:19-21 – Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? 20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. 21 You will increase my greatness and comfort me again. THEME OF…