Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Repentance

Our Proneness to Pride

JAMES 4:16 – But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.” THEME OF THE DAY: OUR PRONENESS TO PRIDE.  Today’s scripture is a description of the sin not contained in the verse.  Arrogance, boasting, and evil are words associated with the mother of all sins – pride. And when it comes to pride?  It is like…

It’s All About Him and Others

2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-15 – For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.” THEME OF THE DAY: IT’S ALL ABOUT HIM AND OTHERS.…

Human Beings Not Human Doings

JOHN 15:1-9 – “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you.…

Listen To The Right Voice

JOHN 8:2-11 -Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in…

Out of the Spiritual Blues

PSALM 42:5 – Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation.” THEME OF THE DAY: OUT OF THE SPIRITUAL BLUES.  Today’s scripture applies to every child of God.  No believer will travel to heaven without those painful stops of being cast down, of…

The Extent God Goes

JONAH 1:17- 2:1-9 – And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish,  saying, “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly…