Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake! Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” —Psalm 79:9-10 ESV This is a God-centered way to pray from our reading in Psalm 79 today. Help me God, for … More A God-centered way to pray
Having just celebrated Jesus’ death and resurrection, it is exciting to have passages of Scripture that point us to Christ. Sometimes verses jump right off the page at us, even though we have read it before and didn’t see it. Did you notice the cities of refuge in today’s reading in Joshua 20-21? Here is … More Cities of Refuge Point to Christ, Our Great High Priest
April 9 1 Corinthians 7:1-16 (ESV) Principles for Marriage 7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to … More April 9 1 Corinthians 7:1-16
April 9 Mark 3:20-35 (ESV) 20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem … More April 9 Mark 3:20-35
April 9 Psalm 79 (ESV) How Long, O Lord? A Psalm of Asaph. 79:1 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. 2 They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to … More April 9 Psalm 79
April 9 Joshua 20-21 (ESV) The Cities of Refuge 20:1 Then the Lord said to Joshua, 2 “Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, 3 that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of … More April 9 Joshua 20-21
For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. —1 Corinthians 6:20 (read verses 12-20 today) John Piper asks, “What Does It Mean That Your Body Was Bought?” When Christ paid the price for his people, he bought our bodies. So let me try to show you from this passage … More Bought With a Price
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on … More There is an indignation which is justifiable
Psalm 78:52 Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. (read Psalm 78:40-72 today) C.H. Spurgeon comments on this verse in The Treasury of David: The contrast is striking, and ought never to have been forgotten by the people. The wolves were slain in heaps, the … More All the way my Savior leads me, O the fullness of His love!
In Joshua 18-19 we read that Joshua called together the people of Israel to divide up the land, the land that “lay subdued before them.” What method did Joshua use? He cast lots. Rolled the dice. Really? Yes. “Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. And there Joshua apportioned the land to … More God is sovereign over the lots
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