Psalm 25 Meditation: John –Humanity has made a habit out of discovering, rejecting, and returning to new ideas. How long did it take between the discovery that the earth was round to when it was no longer blasphemous to say it was round? That discovery was no where near as important as what Jesus is …
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Saturday, January 16
Psalm 20 Meditation: Hebrews – Somewhere along the line, our culture decided that rest equals laziness. Haw you ever been physically or mentally exhausted but couldn’t allow yourself to rest because there’s something else you could be doing? This is not God’s plan for us. God commanded us to rest because our bodies, which God …
Friday, January 15
Psalm 17 Meditation: John – This is Jesus’ first open miracle. He mentions that his time has not yet come. It’s also mentioned that after this first revelation of his glory, his disciples believed in him. If the disciples didn’t believe in Jesus before seeing the clear water turn into drinkable wine, why were they …
Tuesday, December 29
Psalm: 18:1-20 Meditation: 2 John – John’s letter to the ‘elect lady’ is full of commendation and warnings. John spends much of his short letter warning her against false teachers and teachings. There were many people calling themselves Christians but not confessing the coming of Jesus in the flesh. What do false teachers look like …
Wednesday, March 4
Psalm: 119:1-24 Meditation John: Once when Jesus was in Jerusalem during the Passover, He was healing and teaching the crowds. Along came a “real” teacher of the Law and approached Jesus by night to be taught by this unschooled “teacher” from Nazareth. The message Nicodemus received was hardly what he expected. In essence, Jesus told …
Tuesday, March 3
Psalm: 13 Meditation Deuteronomy here gives us a warning against self-righteousness where the Israelites (and we) tend to believe that our own righteousness defeats the enemy – not so! Anytime we entertain the notion that we are deserving of anything, it’s time to re-examine our motives. While in one sense this is true, we, of …
Monday, March 2
Psalm: 6 Meditation John: While the marriage at Cana is a good inauguration to Jesus’ ministry, what I find fascinating is that apparently the servants were tight-lipped about how the water was changed into wine. Jesus also manages to get the bridegroom into trouble because, apparently, the wine Jesus created was “top shelf”. A small …
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