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Gospel Joy

PSALM 92:4 – For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for 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 like a smile is rare or forced. Nor are Christians to give off…

Our God Never Changes

MALACHI 3:6 – For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. “   Aren’t we so glad for the truth in today’s scripture?  God changes not. He never experiences moodiness.  He never treats us based on “having a bad day” and is reactionary.  No, our God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  And…

Make It Count

PSALM 144:4 – Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”   Today’s scripture is truth that I think often gets ignored. Life gets going with all its busyness, pursuits, dreams, goals, highs, lows, and everything else in between and we just neglect pondering this important truth from the Psalmist’s pen.  We simply do life and sometimes forget…

The Battle Is The Lord’s

2 CHRONICLES 14:8-15 –  And Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah, armed with large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin that carried shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.  Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.  And Asa…

Misplaced Priorities

HAGGAI 1:1-10 – In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people…

A Ministry For All

ROMANS 1:7–12 – To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I…