Psalm:85 Meditation: EphHow should we live as Christians? Here we see the contrast of lives in a pagan society versus a return to a life pleasing to God and showing the purest aspects of human nature. Mankind had perverted and trivialized the things of a walk in the light. Although hard, Christians should turn away …
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Sunday, February 14
St. Valentine's Day Psalm 66, 67 Meditation: Mark – What makes a person rich? Their financial or social standing? There’s the traditional sappy movie proclamation that family and love is truly what makes us rich. Many people spend their whole lives chasing riches of one kind or another. Yet, Jesus says that being rich makes …
John Piper
John Piper takes us back to a time that many see as the golden years in our country’s history. It is the 1950s, before when many believe that our country lost its Christian moorings to the social chaos of the 1960s. But that is not how John remembers that time. Piper sees the 1950s very …
Tuesday, September 22
Psalm: 78:1-39 Meditation 1 Corinthians: As if to underscore yesterday’s reading in Matthew 5 about sin, the situation here is far more serious and worse: flagrant sexual immorality is rampant in Western society – no one sees anything wrong with it. The mantra "if no one is getting hurt then there is nothing wrong” represents …
John Gray and Stephen Furtick
Conversations about race are even more terrifying than talking about politics. They are fraught with emotion. There is the fear of being misunderstood. So we say nothing and over the years the church has largely been silent. The result is that we live in a country where our churches are segregated on Sunday and violence …
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