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Learning The Hard Way (Page 124)

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Learning The Hard Way

ECCLESIASTES 2:9-11 – So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all…

Living The Exposed Life

HEBREWS 4:11-13 – Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no…

Foundations For Worship

ISAIAH 12:5–6 – Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  FOUNDATIONS FOR WORSHIP.  The life of the Christian is to be the life of worship. …

The Danger of Drifting

HEBREWS 2:1-4 – Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it…

We Don’t Always Have To

PROVERBS 18:2 – A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.   THEME OF THE DAY:  WE DON’T ALWAYS HAVE TO.  The list is long and I will let you make your own based on one word “opinions.”  Get into a conversation and bring up topics like the current state of politics, elections, COVID, and climate control,…

Rescue The Perishing

MATTHEW 9:36-38 – When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  RESCUE THE…