1The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.r 2Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3No one… Continue reading A Second Chance
Tag: forgiveness
Week 45 Our Loving and Forgiving God
By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 45 Scripture Readings: 2 Chronicles 33-36 Key Scripture Verses: 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved… Continue reading Week 45 Our Loving and Forgiving God
Week 40 Grace for All
By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 40 Scripture Readings: Jonah Key Scripture Verse: Jonah 4: 4 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “But the Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?” God gave Jonah very specific instructions and he decided not to do what God told him to do. He hated the sinful… Continue reading Week 40 Grace for All
Week 40 Learning to Admit When We Are Wrong
By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 40 Scripture Readings: Proverbs 28 Key Scripture Verses: Proverbs 28: 13, 14 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” “Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart falls… Continue reading Week 40 Learning to Admit When We Are Wrong
Week 39 Feuding Neighbors and the Wrath of God
By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 39 Scripture Reading: Obadiah Key Scripture Verses: Obadiah 1:3-4 (NIV, Life Application Bible; Commentary also consulted: “Believer’s Bible Commentary,” by William MacDonald, 1995): “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you… Continue reading Week 39 Feuding Neighbors and the Wrath of God
Week 38 Relationship Repair
Relationship Repair By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 38 Scripture Reading: Philemon Key Scripture Verses: Philemon 1:17 “So if you consider me a partner welcome him as you would welcome me.” (NIV, Life Application Bible) Paul’s letter to Philemon is short and concerns Onesimus, Philemon’s slave who had run away. After Onesimus left, he… Continue reading Week 38 Relationship Repair
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 29: How to Become Someone New
Today’s Text: Colossians 3-4 Key Text: Colossians 3:12-14 “And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should… Continue reading Week 29: How to Become Someone New
Keeping Watch
Key Texts: Psalm 130:1-6 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence,… Continue reading Keeping Watch
A Fresh Start
Key Texts: Romans 8:1-8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,… Continue reading A Fresh Start
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