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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21, ESV
Holding onto the things of this world may bring some temporary happiness, but mostly it leaves us feeling empty and alone.
Seeking Christ in all things brings joy and hope for eternity.
Today I am not preaching or teaching, though I regularly do one or the other. This is our first regular service, back to a single, combined service in over 2 years.
We finally have space for all of us!
Instead, I am helping in the tech “booth” with words, sound, and video, getting our volunteers up to speed.
I guess I am still teaching!
Daniel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: If you are preaching and teaching, thank God for the opportunity. I’ll be preaching today at church. That led me to think of this point. I thank God for the opportunity to preach the Word of God to the congregation. I think […]
This Sunday at Church: If you are preaching and teaching, thank God for the opportunity
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
Psalm 42:11, ESV
Life in this world can get overwhelming and depressing.
Our God has given us hope for the future through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Seek Him to find joy.
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6, ESV
God’s mercy is clear when children grow up and follow what good they learned from their parents.
God’s grace is clear when those children grow up and follow Christ.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27, ESV
In His mercy, God overlooks our man-made attempts to please Him. In His grace, He showed is what is right.
We should seek His righteousness and show mercy and grace to those who most need it.
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ
Philippians 1:9-10, ESV
God grants us His mercy to seek Him, and His grace that we may find Him and love Him.
Seek God. Grow in His love and wisdom, knowing Him more and what He desires for our lives in Christ.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6:33, ESV
God shows mercy to us by providing much of our needs when we are going astray, and He shows grace in giving more than we are aware we have needed, especially as we seek Him and find Hos forgiveness and love.
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:18, ESV
God has shown us mercy in not destroying us outright, and grace by reconciling us with Himself through the cross. Let us now lead others to that mercy and grace.
“And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
Malachi 4:6, ESV
It can seem the world is getting worse all the time.
Yet, God has called us to show His mercy by praying that He will draw fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, whole families together and to Him.
Pray God’s mercy and grace on our world and our hearts and minds.
a simple man of God 