How to Know When You Love Others
Neighbor love – what's that look like?
Mark 10:18
And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You and You alone, LORD, God the Almighty, are good. You are the exemplar, thesine qua non,the absolute standard, the nonpareil. There is no other. Today's readings in the Psalms: Morning: Psalm 79 Mid-day: 119:169-176 Evening: Psalm […]
When Children Ask: God’s Command
The First Commandment: Statues and Precepts (25)
Deuteronomy 6.20-25
20 “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?’ 21 then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 22 and the LORD showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household. 23 Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day. 25 Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’”
Ephesians 2.1-10; Philippians 1.9-11
The Centrality of the Church Revelation: Introduction
Revelation 1.4, 5
4 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.