Psalms: 22, 95 Meditation Romans: This is a passage about the importance death plays in our lives. The verb tenses used here (in English) throughout (when speaking of death) are all in the past whereas the tense used with “life” is in the present. Because we’re so tied to our bodily experience, it then becomes …
Tag: Lent
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 …
Wednesday, February 17
Ash Wednesday Psalm 95 Meditation: Luke –Whether you hold to the traditional Christian calendar or not, the purpose of Lent is to remind us of our need for a Savior and the cost that our Savior needed to pay for us. The tax collector in the parable has a truly Lenten spirit. And as we …
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 …
Tuesday, March 24
Psalm: 51:1-17 Meditation Jeremiah: These 8 verses discuss just how important “keeping the sabbath” is to God. This is not about “Sunday”! The point here, as in Lent, is to take time away from the vicissitudes of life to relax and to focus on God (and His word). I doubt that if it were not …
Tuesday, February 25
Psalm: 98 Meditation The theme for Lent will be avoiding complacency in our daily walk with Christ. Opening with a stern warning: We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard so that we do not drift away…” (v. 1) Drifting away is the very definition of complacency. We run the risk …
Daily Bible Readings, Saturday, April 15, 2014
Prayer Psalm: 27 Prayer Point. Fear and hardship are two enemies of our soul, calling us to give up. The psalmist calls us to refocus our hopes and desires, “Seek his face! Your face I will seek!” Pray that as we face difficulties in our lives that we will not take our eyes off of Jesus. …
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Daily Bible Readings – Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Prayer Psalm: 74 Prayer Point. How do you pray when you lose something you believed was forever? Asaph laments the destruction of his beloved city, Jerusalem, and God’s temple. He asks, “why have you rejected us forever, O God?” Think of someone in your life that is in this place and pray Psalm 74 on their …
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Daily Bible Readings – Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Prayer Psalm: 94 Prayer Point. We live in a world where the most vulnerable: widows, orphans, the unborn and refugees are often oppressed with impunity. Many say, “the Lord does not see.” Pray on behalf of the weak and the oppressed. Pray that God will be their fortress. Mark 11:27-33 Pray. Ask the Holy Spirit to help …
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Daily Bible Readings – Monday, April 14, 2014
Prayer Psalm: 69 Prayer Point. “I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.” Are you or someone you know in this place? Lift up Psalm 69 as your prayer. After you cry out to God, meditate on the fact that the suffering man in this psalm is Jesus and that he entered our …
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