Psalm: 66 Meditation: ColLike Peter, Paul uses the term elect or chosen of God, Holy and beloved to address Collossian believers. Paul admonishes these believers to relate to each other with love and forgiveness. They are also called to live in thankfulness and peace allowing the word of Christ to dwell in them. How many …
Tag: forgiveness
Thursday, March 17
Psalms: 14, 15 Meditation Jeremiah: – “Among my people are wicked men.” (v. 28) Lent is a good time to take a break from the hub-bub and bustle of the world; to step back and to evaluate your walk with God. Complacency is easy: “I’m all set.” We have to fight against this kind of …
Friday, September 10
Psalm: 73 Meditation John: This passage is rife with fear. First the parents of the blind man are afraid of the Jews (the leaders, elders and the priests) for they would be “cut off” from the community of Israel. The Jewish leaders were afraid for here is a Galilean who questions their own authority; someone …
Tuesday, January 5
Eve of Epiphany Psalm 2 Meditation: Jonah – Jonah spent three days and nights inside the fish by the time he prays this prayer. This is Jonah’s prayer of repentance. We don’t know what happened for all of that time inside the fish but three days of total solitude in darkness will do a number …
Thursday, October 22
Psalm: 37 Meditation Matthew: Jesus was around the Sea of Galilee healing people and casting out demons. He discouraged people from spreading about the news of the healings. The good news of God’s forgiveness was a far timelier tiding to spread abroad. That is how Matthew saw it in quoting from Isaiah 42. Healings tend …
Sunday, October 11
Psalm: 147 Meditation Luke: How easily our eyes are closed to ourselves as Jesus said in the “Sermon on the Mount”: clear out your own eye before judging someone else. While the Pharisee is judging Jesus, Jesus, is about to judge him. Like Jonah, the Pharisee hates the idea of God showing forgiveness and mercy …
God Knows Us
Listen. If you missed the Children’s Message on Sunday, you can listen to a recording of it here: http://www.pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall starting Monday. Review How many thoughts does God have about us? [Hint to Parents: See Psalm 139:17-18] How does it make you feel that God knows you and thinks about you this much? Let’s find out …
Tuesday, September 1
Psalm: 26 Meditation 1 Kings: God reiterates the need to observe and follow His commands. The king, for the most part, stood as a representative of the people – this means the people would do what they saw the king doing. David did sin, but he repented and gained forgiveness. The same would hold true …
Fasting
There is a dramatic scene at the end of the book of Jonah where an entire city, the city of Nineveh, is confronted with the news that God is about to destroy them. How do they respond to impending judgment? They declare a fast. The king decrees that no one, not even their animals, is …
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