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 …
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March 22 – Going Deeper
Read John 9:1-41 and watch Pastor Nate's sermon "Blindness." https://youtu.be/UN3W19-Z3FU Listen. What did you hear in the Scripture reading and the sermon? What is God saying to you? What is Jesus saying about blindness? What is Jesus telling us about himself? Respond. If this is God’s word to you, what will you do? Here are some …
Thursday, March 26
Psalm: 69 Meditation Romans: We have an obligation as Christians to live according to the Spirit Whom we receive upon conversion. This says we are adopted by God whom we can now call “Daddy” (“Abba”) or “Papa”. This is now an intimate relationship not borne of fear. We don’t pray as we ought so this …
Thursday, February 27
Psalm: 106 Meditation Consider Isaiah 38:1-6. Hezekiah, king of Judah, became ill and was at the point of death, Isaiah the prophet went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.” This only means we don’t have the …
Generations
I am sitting at Reverence Church and I am disappointed. We all are. Attendance is down significantly at our third evening service, the church planting team seems disjointed and distracted, and “George” is drunk. We smelled it on his breath as soon as he walked in. Months of work, time, and sacrifice seemed to be …
Tuesday, February 18
Psalm: 74 Meditation 1 Timothy: In verse 2:7 Paul identifies himself as a herald much as the angels of Luke 2:8-14 when Jesus was born. Just as at Jesus’ birth the angelic host announced the birth of a savior, so Paul does the same throughout Macedonia, Asia, Achaia (Greece) and finally Rome also. He is …
The Three-Legged Stool
I've been thinking a lot about three-legged stools since Mark's sermon this past Sunday. They are superior to the four-legged bar stools in my kitchen which are never flush to the ground. They rock. They squeak. Their legs work themselves loose. Three-legged stools are unique in their stability. Mark, of course, was not talking about …
Read until your Heart gets hot
I learned something the other day that might help those of us who struggle with keeping a routine of reading the Bible. Here is my rough paraphrase of a talk Tim Keller gave to a group of pastors ... Read slowly. Chew on the passages that grab your attention. Read until your heart gets hot and …
Turning the Shark
As we saw in the previous post, Psalm 119 is a poem inspired by one man's love for the law of God and his struggle to keep it. Scattered throughout this enormous prayer are pleas to God that he might teach him to follow his laws: Teach me, O LORD, to follow your decrees; then …
Praying for your Six
The church I grew up in is really into evangelism and they are good at it. They have done it all. They walked the streets at night striking up conversations with complete strangers. They passed out gospel tracts, performed street theater and knocked on every door in the neighborhood. You would think that growing up …
