Archive for April 2022
S133P6 – Words to live by: the duty of service
Lk. 17:7-10 Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, “Come at once and recline at table”? Will he not rather say to him, “Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink,…
Read MoreS133P5 – Words to live by: righteous offense
Mt 5:11-12 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. One of his sisters was looking for work, so she…
Read MoreThe wolves are out!
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ha2hz-11f6ad5 Test the fruit you see and hear. Seek the Lord in his word for direction and correction, because we are not above being misled. He tells us how we can know when a sheep is indeed a wolf seeking to deceive and mislead. We are accountable for testing what comes our way before we…
Read MoreS133P4 – Words to live by: charity perverted yields its own reward
Mt. 6:1-4 Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that…
Read MoreS133P3 – Words to live by: you must be remade
Lk. 5:36-39 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else…
Read MoreS133P2 – Words to live by: repentance matters
Lk. 13:1-5 There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you…
Read MoreS133P1 – Words to live by: one way
Jn. 14:5-6 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Her goal was to reach the apex of her discipline. The…
Read MoreS132P7 – Patterns in Exodus: deliverance plus
Exo. 3:20-22 So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go. And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be, when you go, that you shall not…
Read MoreS132P6 – Patterns in Exodus: an impossible solution
Exo. 3:7-10 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that…
Read MoreS132P5 – Patterns in Exodus: timely revelation
Exo. 3:4-6 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is…
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