Sustained and Lacking Nothing
Can we doubt it? There will come a day when we will look back at everything and be able to say, “Jesus led me all the way.”
The LORD is Peace
“So Gideon built an altar there to the LORD,and called it The-LORD-Is-Peace.” (Judges 6:24, NKJV) Gideon was scared to death. No one can see the face of God and live. And yet, here he stood and declared: “Alas, O Lord GOD! For I have seen the Angel of the LORD face to face” (Judges 6:22). […]
Loving God
The great commandment, as Jesus explained, is to love God with all our soul and strength. OK. What will that look like in us? Today’s excerpt from The Kingdom Turn is found on pages 154-156: “I want to suggest eight indicators that will say to us and God that we truly love Him. “First, we know that […]
Grow Up!
Hope for the Church (4) Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave … 1 Corinthians 16.13Babes in Christ The believers in Corinth in the days of the apostle Paul were not acting like mature adults in the Lord. Rather, they were acting like children, like “babes in Christ” (1 Cor. 3.1). They weren’t growing, and […]
Too Blind to See
Matthew 12: The Lord and His Family (5) Pray Psalm 1.6.For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,But the way of the ungodly shall perish.Sing Psalm 1.4-6.Regent Square: Angels from the Realms of GloryNot so rooted are the wicked, like chaff blowing in the wind.They shall not stand with the righteous but shall be judged in their sin.For […]
Hitting Bottom
Hosea 7:4–10 (ESV) They are all adulterers; they are like a heated ovenwhose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.For with hearts like an oven […]