Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Faith and Assurance

The Second Greatest Display of God’s Love

PSALM 86:15 – But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  THE SECOND GREATEST DISPLAY OF GOD’S LOVE.  Here is a quick and easy two question Bible test.  The answer to the first question is obvious.  The second question?  It is described all through today’s…

Each New Day is A New Start

LAMENTATIONS 3:18-23 – So I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come…

What God Starts, God Finishes

PSALM 33:4 – For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is done in faithfulness.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  WHAT GOD STARTS, GOD FINISHES.  In the opening of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he encourages us with the truth that God is at work in us. Further in the Philippian letter, we are told God…

Because He Delights In Us

PSALM 18:16-19 – He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. He brought me out into a broad place; he…

Zeal Without Knowledge

MARK 10:35-40 – And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one…

We Don’t Always Have to Respond

MATTHEW 26:57–64 – Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end. Now the chief priests and the whole council were…