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 …
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Sunday, September 13
Psalm: 84 Meditation 1 Kings: Billy Graham is probably the nearest point of reference we have to what Elijah was like (though not nearly close enough). Elijah was experiencing a crisis of faith. He retreats to Mount Horeb (Sinai) and, like Moses, he will “see” God. So, there was an earthquake – no God; a …
Worship Guide for March 29, 2020
Opening Prayer Read Psalm 130 together.This psalm is a “song of ascents”, meaning that it was a song sung by worshipers as they went up to Jerusalem to worship God in the temple. The Jerusalem and its temple were situated on Mount Zion. So no matter what direction you came from, you were always going …
March 29 – Going Deeper
Read John 11:1-45. Watch the sermon video below. https://youtu.be/ddkjLaJxksA Listen. What did you hear in the Scripture reading and the sermon? What is God saying to you? What do we learn about Jesus in the “darkness” of Lazarus’ sickness and death? What do we learn about ourselves? Respond. If this is God’s word to you, …
Saturday, April 4
Psalm: 13 Meditation John: This is the account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. This event prefigures Jesus’ own resurrection with one glaring difference: Jesus will rise from the dead with a “glorious” body whereas Lazarus would one day die again. The unbelievers were present here as well to mock Jesus “Could he not…?’, …
Friday, April 3
Psalms: 6, 95 Meditation Romans: ’Tis is a stern warning against complacency. We have seen how the Jews believed that they were chosen by God just by accident of birth. God, in essence, “got stuck with them” regardless of their lack of faith. Here Paul is warning the Gentiles that what can be given can …
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