JEREMIAH 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? THEME OF THE DAY. NEVER TRUST YOURSELF. The evidence is everywhere. The carnage stretches across many families and churches. The horrible results are not difficult to see. The pain is felt by many. I am referring to the damage that occurs when individuals rely upon…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
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Proverbs 1:2-7 – To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth —
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
JEREMIAH 14:7 – Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. 1 JOHN 2:12 – I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. THEME OF THE DAY. IT ISN’T ABOUT US. There is a verse that opens the one…
PSALM 119:71 – It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. THEME OF THE DAY. REACHING HEIGHTS OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY. The Bible gives us much evidence to affirm we are growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus toward spiritual maturity. Here are a few; increased love for other Christians manifested by self-denying…
1 JOHN 1:1-4 – That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father…
JEREMIAH 2:12-13 – Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the Lord, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. THEME OF THE DAY. WHERE ARE WE DRINKING? As a young boy, I remember those fond…
ACTS 14:21-22 – When they, Paul and Barnabas, had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. THEME OF THE DAY. IT MUST…