“You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live” Deuteronomy 5:33a Our God desires life for us. Real, whole, full, abundant life. Some might say that living according to the commands of God, following the example of Jesus, and walking in the sacrificial and submissive […]
“Now the works of the flesh are evident: …enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy…But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” Galatians 5:19-22 I don’t think I ever noticed before how many of the listed “works of the flesh” in this passage have […]
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” Colossians 3:12-13 Two things stood out to me as I read through […]
“The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai…saying, ‘Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel… And there shall be with you a man from each tribe…And these are the names of the men who shall assist you…’ These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of […]
“Then I said to them, ‘You see the trouble we are in…Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.’ And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good… And they said, ‘Let us rise up and build.’ So they strengthened […]
“But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.” 1 Corinthians 12:18 In unerring wisdom and abundant grace, God chose each of us to fill a certain role in the body of Christ. Whatever our gifts, however His grace is made manifest in us, His Spirit […]
“To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours.” 1 Corinthians 1:2 I love the one-ness of Christ’s church. That in our being […]
“The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, ‘For,’ they said, ‘it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.’” Joshua 22:34 My focus this morning is actually on the whole passage of Joshua 22:10-34. The Israelite Tribes who lived on the East side of the Jordan River […]
In Pleasant Places 