Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Faith and Assurance

What About Our Sins?

PSALM 130:1-8 – Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! 2 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. 5 I wait for the…

Our Hiding God

ISAIAH 45:15 – Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. THEME OF THE DAY. OUR HIDING GOD. Sometimes it feels like it – God hiding Himself especially during trying times when we cry out for His comforting presence and we are met with a silence and no relief. We feel abandoned, even ignored by the…

The Promised Rest Of Christ

MATTHEW 11:28-30 – Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” THEME OF THE DAY. THE PROMISED…

Nighttime Visitations

ISAIAH 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. THEME OF THE DAY. NIGHTTIME VISITATIONS. All of us experience sleepless nights. Believers and unbelievers alike. There are multiple reasons for being kept awake at night. Some of these reasons are common to both believers and unbelievers; work, stress, anxiety, worry, sickness, physical discomfort,…

When Things Don’t Go As Planned

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. WHEN THINGS DON’T GO AS PLANNED. Today’s scripture might be considered one of those “great to…

The Sweetest Words Ever Heard

JOHN 20:11-17 – But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have…