Treasures in Heaven
Matthew 6: The Sermon on the Mount (30) Pray Psalm 63.1, 2.O God, You are my God;Early will I seek You;My soul thirsts for You;My flesh longs for YouIn a dry and thirsty landWhere there is no water.So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,To see Your power and Your glory. Sing Psalm 63.1, […]
Drink It Down
We must be always on guard against our faith becoming merely an intellectual thing. Paul likened being filled with the Spirit to being drunk with wine, an image he may have drawn from Psalm 116. Today’s excerpt from The Kingdom Turn is found on pages 58 and 59: “The writer of Psalm 116 was filled with the […]
What Harsh Fate
State of the Church: The Celtic Revival (13) What harsh fate then is rushing upon these men, who not only fail to do what they ought to do, and do not turn aside from what is forbidden, but even shun, as if it were a savage snake, the reading of the Word of God when […]
Unmoved by the Success of the Ungodly
The wicked may prosper and plot against the righteous, but God will triumph against them in the end. So, the godly are generous, meditate on God’s Word, and hope in Him.
Denial
Jonah 1:4–6 (NIV) Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, […]