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Cultivating Our Relationship With The Lord

ISAIAH 30:15a – For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  CULTIVATING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD.  In evaluating the challenges in cultivating our relationship with the Lord, what would we individually list as the top three? …

Slaying the Beast of Pride

JAMES 4:5–6 – Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  SLAYING THE BEAST OF PRIDE.  It is the most…

How To Go To Church

  PSALM 5:7 – But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  HOW TO GO TO CHURCH.  How did we go to church this past Lord’s Day?  How will we go in two days?  I am not referring to…

Where God Wants Us

PSALM 73:23-26 – Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and…

Children of God Right Now

1 JOHN 3:1-3 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that…

God’s Second Greatest Display of His Love

2 PETER 3:1-9 – This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come…