Help!

Reading today from Psalm 70 Please, God, rescue me! Come quickly, Lord, and help me. (Psalm 70:1) So many of us have offered this prayer in some way haven’t we? We’re afraid, we’re hurting, we’re lost, we’re sick… Whether we mean it...

Weakness

Reading from Philippians 3:12-4:23 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control. (Philippians 3:21) Paul just warned his readers that there are people...

What Benefit?

Today’s reading is from Mark 8:31-38 “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the...

More than a promise

Reading today from Genesis 12:1-9 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will...

The Righteous for the Unrighteous

Reading today from 1 Peter 3:12-22. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit… (1 Peter 3:18) God knows the power of sin; Jesus Christ...

Worship

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is...