Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Repentance

Where Sin Did Abound, Grace Did More

PSALM 65:1-3 – Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions.” THEME OF THE DAY: WHERE SIN DID ABOUND, GRACE DID MORE.  Ever feel like David in today’s Psalm? There are many moving…

It’s Not Always Fast

MARK 8:22-25 – And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.  And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” And he…

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…