Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Faith and Assurance

Sleep Well For All Is Well

PSALM 121:1-4 – I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” I don’t need to make a list of what…

The Mysterious but Good Ways of God

ISAIAH 55:8–9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” THEME OF THE DAY: The Mysterious but Good Ways of God. Today’s nugget takes a little different twist than normal.…

The Order of Needs is Important

MARK 2:1-12 – And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not…

What Motivates, Empowers, and Guides Our Walks With the Lord?

PSALM 26:1-3 – Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind. For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.” The question identifying the theme of today’s nugget contains two answers. The…

Living in Consciousness of God’s Being

PSALM 139:1-5 – O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem…