Today’s Text: Numbers 9-12 Key Text: Numbers 9:15-17 “On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant, and from evening until morning, it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of fire. It was always so: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire… Continue reading Week 35 The Cloud and the Fire
Month: August 2015
Week 35: Good Deposits
Today’s Text: Second Timothy 1-2 Key Text: Second Timothy 1:13 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. Have you ever stopped to think… Continue reading Week 35: Good Deposits
Week 34 Never In Darkness
Today’s Text: John 7-9 Key Text: John 8:12 “Again Jesus spoke to them, saying: ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.’ “ When you think about it, it’s a staggering promise: to never walk in darkness. Think of just some… Continue reading Week 34 Never In Darkness
Week 34 A Painful Choice
Week 34 A Painful Choice Today’s Text: Hosea 1-7 Key Text: Hosea 1:1:2 “When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, ‘Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry….” It may be hard for us to understand – a man who feels led by God to take a wife who will… Continue reading Week 34 A Painful Choice
Week 34 Lending to God
Today’s Text: Proverbs 19 Key Text: Proverbs 19:17 “He who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD….” I can’t read these words without thinking of Mother Teresa. I immediately think of one central part of her now famous ministry. She insisted that in caring for the poor of Calcutta – she was… Continue reading Week 34 Lending to God
Week 34: We Are His
Today’s Text: Psalms 99-101 Key Text: Psalm 100:1-3 “Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.” I like how the… Continue reading Week 34: We Are His
Week 34 With All Our Might
Today’s Text: First Chronicles 10-14 Key Text: First Chronicles 13:8 “And David and all Israel were celebrating before God will all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and with trumpets.” It must have been quite a parade – David and all the people celebrating and worshipping as they transported the… Continue reading Week 34 With All Our Might
Week 34 The Blessing
Today’s Text: Numbers 5-8 Key Text: Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.” I can remember hearing my father, who was a minister, say this blessing over his congregations… Continue reading Week 34 The Blessing
Week 34: Some Will Fall Away
Today’s Text: First Timothy 4-6 Key Text: First Timothy 4:1 “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.” Wow. There are times when the Apostle Paul simply puts it on the line. When you want to have a… Continue reading Week 34: Some Will Fall Away
Week 33: Do You Wish To Get Well?
Week 33: Do You Wish To Get Well? Today’s Text: John 5-6 Key Text: John 5:6 “When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, ‘Do you wish to get well?’” The poor man whom Jesus addressed in the scripture verse… Continue reading Week 33: Do You Wish To Get Well?