Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Faith and Assurance

Looking Back: God’s Faithfulness

PSALM 100:5 – For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. THEME OF THE DAY. LOOKING BACK: GOD’S FAITHFULNESS. The end of 2020. What a year is to state the obvious! Each of us faced never encountered before challenges, fears, and disruptions in life. On our jobs, in our churches, schools, among our families…

A Mary-Like Christmas

LUKE 2:8–20 – And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news…

Ways God Delights In Us

MICAH 7:18-20 – Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show…

Lessons From A Fish Belly

JONAH 1:1-4; 17; 2:1, 9-10 – Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship…

The Devil And Our Past

PHILIPPIANS 3:13–15 – Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in…