Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Salvation

Don’t Settle for the False and Fleeting

PSALM 16:11 – You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  DON’T SETTLE FOR THE FALSE AND FLEETING.  What would be a good summary statement of today’s scripture? As we ponder this, focus on the words “fullness of joy” and “pleasures…

Do We Have Any?

MATTHEW 9:1-13 – And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”…

Watch Ourselves For We Are Being Watched

1 TIMOTHY 6:11-12 – Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”     THEME OF THE DAY:  WATCH OURSELVES FOR WE ARE BEING WATCHED.  Today’s scripture is a portion of…

The Preventing Grace of God

GENESIS 20:1–6 – From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a…

Salvation: Our Responsibility and God’s

GENESIS 7:11-16 – In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah and his sons,…