EXODUS 23:19 – The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” Today’s scripture is God giving His people of old the descriptions and instructions about the laws concerning the Sabbath and festivals. If we go all the way back to…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Worship
1 Chronicles 16:23-25 Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
PSALM 19:14 – Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Today’s scripture paints a portrait of the whole of Christianity. David points to his tongue as the instrument which rings forth the outward profession of allegiance to the Lord. He would also look inside of…
ECCLESIASTES 3:18 – I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.” God does many works in the lives of His children. Here are just a few. He teaches us. He directs us. He comforts us. He corrects us. He conforms us into…
1 JOHN 3:1-3 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that…
1 CORINTHIANS 1:30-31 – And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” The writer of the letter to the Hebrews would tell us how the Christian life is lived – Therefore, since we…
MARK 8:27-30 – And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered…