“God Keeps His Promises” Psalm 130 (Common English Bible) A pilgrimage song. 130 I cry out to you from the depths, Lord— 2 my Lord, listen to my voice! Let your ears pay close attention to my request for mercy! 3 If you kept track of sins, Lord—my Lord, who would…
“The Blessed Life” Psalm 84 (English Standard Version) 84 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. 3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her…
Not About “Me” John 15:17-21 (English Standard Version) 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another. The Hatred of the World 18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the…
“Increasing Your Spiritual Effectiveness” Habakkuk 2:2-4 (New King James Version) The Just Live by Faith 2 Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it…
“Coping With Loneliness” 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 (New King James Version) Unity and Diversity in One Body 12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one…
“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” (1 Cor.…
“Do Not Hold Back” Psalm 8 (New Living Translation) For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. 1 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. 2 You have taught children and infants…
On this Mothers-day I am reminded of something about prayer that impacted me as a kid. As a young boy I remember my mother having a small wooden plaque on the wall of our home that said, “Prayer Changes Things.” I remember passing that little sign many times and wondering…
Divisions in the Church But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for…
Hi Folks, I believe we need spiritual maturation and wisdom in this day and age, especially in the church. Paul says in 1 Cor. 3 that he could not talk to the believers in Corinth like he should have been able to. “When I was with you I couldn’t talk…